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As a therapist, she knew a baby’s first sense of self comes through its parents’ gaze. We are born being watched—our parents’ expressions, what we see reflected in the mirror of their eyes, determines how we see ourselves.

— Alex Michaelides

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Possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering.

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

You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them.

As far as I can see, love only brings sorrow.

She sometimes felt she had been cursed, as if by some malevolent goddess in a Greek myth, to lose everyone she ever loved.

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