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A review by vilms
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
challenging
dark
hopeful
informative
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
** spoiler alert **
quotes:
- Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness; an act of possession which instantly gives way to nothing.
- Slowly, in the darkness, I realised something. I didn't want to die. Not yet; not when I hadn't lived.
- We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.
- Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, an will come forth later, in uglier way.
- There's so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it.
- The truth is we're all scared. We're terrified of each other. I'm terrified of myself.
- We often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still.
- A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.
- Where Jean-Felix saw beauty, I saw only pain; I saw self-inflicted wounds, and scars of self-harm.
- Perhaps some of us are simply born evil; and despite our best efforts we remain that way.
** spoiler alert **
quotes:
- Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness; an act of possession which instantly gives way to nothing.
- Slowly, in the darkness, I realised something. I didn't want to die. Not yet; not when I hadn't lived.
- We're all crazy, I believe, just in different ways.
- Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, an will come forth later, in uglier way.
- There's so much pain everywhere, and we just close our eyes to it.
- The truth is we're all scared. We're terrified of each other. I'm terrified of myself.
- We often mistake love for fireworks - for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still.
- A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.
- Where Jean-Felix saw beauty, I saw only pain; I saw self-inflicted wounds, and scars of self-harm.
- Perhaps some of us are simply born evil; and despite our best efforts we remain that way.
** spoiler alert **