#alex michaelides

[riverofthought]

[sadexecutivelove]

Alex Michaelides, The silent patient.

[chai-n-ivy]

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

- C. S. Lewis

[melodysbookhaven]

“That’s where all creativity is born, I believe—in the desire to escape.”

Alex Michaelides, The Fury

[aap-kaisi-ladhki-hain-kammo-ji]

i loved the silent patient not just coz it has amazing plot twist... but coz it made me very sad.. it broke my heart when alicia said - ‘Dad just—killed me.’

the two person whome she loved the most who were supposed to protect her... They both killed her.

and then there was theo who was mocking her.

And the reference of Alcestis. how she loved her husband and how her coward husband sacrficed her without a second thought and how her silence was shown as murderous rage and grief at loss of his love for his husband....

[bluryyyblu]

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. 

- Sigmund Freud

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[naziminpirayesii]

''Biliyorsun Theo, kabullenmesi en zor şeylerden biri, en çok ihtiyacımız olduğu zaman sevilmemiş olduğumuzdur. Sevilmemiş olmanın acısı berbat bir histir.''

[sillytriumphdragon]

*the silent patient*

Author: Alex Michaelides

Genre: Thriller

Rating: 4.5 ⭐

From the very beginning of this book, I was hooked. I found myself so wrapped up in the story, invested in unraveling the mystery behind why Alicia murdered her husband.

Michaelides does an excellent job in creating a story filled with things and characters that are meant to keep you guessing.

Written in five parts with very short chapters, this made for one fast read that was hard to put down. It's so easy to burn through a lot of pages when you think,

"Well this chapter has 3 pages, I can keep going." And the twist? That twist? I found myself continuously changing my theories as more and more details surfaced, and I truly didn't see that twist coming until it was right under my nose.

Favorite dialogue:

*“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”*

[thoughtfulfangirling]

"Somehow, grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness — an act of possession which instantly gives way to nothing."

— The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides

[imkennykenken]

[melaniedilek]

"“I didn’t know it then, but it was too late—I had internalized my father, introjected him, buried him deep in my unconscious. No matter how far I ran, I carried him with me wherever I went.”

Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient.

[litandlifequotes]

Love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

[melodysbookhaven]

“My therapist once told me that all traumatized children, and the adults they become, tend to focus exclusively on the outside world. A kind of hypervigilance, I suppose. We look outward, not inward-scanning the world for danger signs - is it safe or not? We grow up so terrified of incurring anger, for instance, or contempt, that now, as adults, if we glimpse a stifled yawn while talking to someone, a look of boredom or irritation in their eyes, we feel a horrible, frightening disintegration inside - like a frayed fabric being ripped apart - and swiftly redouble our efforts to entertain and please.

The real tragedy is, of course, by always looking outward, by focusing so intently on the other person's experience, we lose touch with our own. It's as if we live our entire life pretending to be ourselves, as impostors impersonating ourselves, rather than feeling this is really me, this is who I am.”

Alex Michaelides, The Fury

[celectial-rhyme]

— The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

[bookishlyvintage]

Quarter One Favorites:

The Fury, Alex Michaelides The Book of Doors, Gareth Brown The Last Lost Girl, Casey L Bond The Death of Jane Lawrence, Cailtin Starling