Trauma

Book by Patrick McGrath · 2 quotes · Trauma, Death, Ghosts

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All Trauma Death Ghosts Madness Other People Reality Snow Suicide Wolves

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“I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me. To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.”

Death Madness Suicide Trauma Snow Wolves

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“We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.”

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