I leave you the best phrases of The psychoanalyst, psychological thriller, published in 2003 and written by John Katzenbach. This work remained one of the best-selling books in 2004 in Spain and Latin America, and was awarded the Grand Prize for detective literature in the same year.
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John Katzenbach, author of The Psychoanalyst. Source: John_Katzenbach.jpg: US Embassy, Buenos Airesderivative work: Athenchen, via Wikimedia Commons
-Happy 53rd birthday, doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death. - Rumplestiltskin.
-Knowing the facts does not necessarily mean understanding them. -Storyteller.
-When someone dies, we learn more about life than we know about the deceased. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-There are always chances that things will improve. You just have to find them. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-The best game is the one in which you do not realize that you are playing. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-The moments can last forever or evaporate quickly. Time actually depends on our view of the world. -Dr. Lewis.
-We fear they will kill us. But it is much worse that they destroy us. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-The greatest luxury of our existence, no matter how miserable it may be, is that we do not know the days when we were lucky. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Life is nothing more than that. One game after another. And death is the greatest game of all. -Dr. Lewis.
-The hands are not really dangerous. What is truly dangerous is what we have in mind. -Dr. Lewis.
-The impact and pain of a nightmare can be much greater than a punch. -Storyteller.
-What I was, is not what I am. And what I am is not yet what I can be. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-No one says what he wants to say. That is something important that life teaches you. Everything would be better if more people learned it. -Sergeant.
-Betrayal can become much stronger than love. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-There is always that wonderful moment, when a man sees the body of a woman for the first time. Especially the body of a woman he doesn't know. A vision that is all adventure. Her gaze cascades, like water off a cliff. -Virgil.
-He told me he would be my guide to hell. He was right, perhaps more than he imagined. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-You could move. You could even change your name. But you can't change who you are or who you want to be. And that's the problem, isn't it? -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Procedures exist to prevent contact, not to favor it -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Freud said that coincidences do not exist. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-We create and later, when creation goes wrong, we want to blame others, when normally we are responsible. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Nothing of what happens is isolated. A single bad act can have all kinds of repercussions. -Storyteller.
-No one can start over, at least that I know of. We all say that we want to find a way to start life over, but things are not like that. -Sergeant.
-Even bad poets love death. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-It was almost a luxury to be swallowed up by so much anonymity. -Storyteller.
-People without imagination and ideas fill their heads with procedures, people with character know when to do without procedures. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-There are many ways to kill someone. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Just because something bothers you does not mean that you should ignore it. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Make others before others have a chance to do you. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
But you can be sure of one thing: my anger knows no bounds. -Rumplestiltskin.
-Accept the madness. Create the delusion. Establish the doubt. Feed paranoia. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
"Isn't revenge just accepting one's debts and paying them in another way?" -Dr. Lewis.
-What therapy provides is, in the best of cases, a new way of seeing who you are, and allowing that new definition of one's life to influence the decisions and choices that the future entails. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-A pretty nice night to die. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Security is based on impressions. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-A man without a past can forge any future. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-He values too much what people say to him. See the words spoken as a means of getting to the truth. I consider them a means to hide it. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Even psychopaths are vulnerable to your wishes. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Do not those whom we love and respect more hurt us than those whom we hate and have? -Dr. Lewis.
-Impersonal places for men and women who earn money and spend it as quickly as possible and who think that, somehow, that makes sense. - Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Normally, we get in the way of each other. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Identity is a layer of experience but it seemed to him that there was very little left of what he had believed himself to be. -Storyteller.
- Certainty is a wonderful presumption. -Marline.
-No one really apologizes. They say it, but it's never true. -Sergeant.
-Fear is something strange. It manifests itself in many external ways, but none of them are as powerful as the steel that runs through your heart and stomach or the current that runs through your imagination. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-What an analyst does is isolate guilt and try to translate it into something manageable, because the need for revenge is as disabling as any neurosis. -Storyteller.
-Revenge serves to cleanse the heart and soul. -Rumplestiltskin.
-Often what really threatens us and costs more to fight is something that comes from within us. -Storyteller.
-Dreams were unconscious and important riddles that reflected the soul. -Storyteller.
-What does a psychoanalyst do? Set very simple but inviolable rules. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-But it's funny, don't you think, doctor? May the truth be even stronger than death. -Dr. Ricky Starks as “Dr. Roth ".
-Madness. But crazy with an unmistakable touch of intelligence, because it will cause me to join it. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-You ruined my life. You may not know how, why or when, but you did. She filled all my moments with disaster and sadness. She ruined my life. And now I am determined to ruin yours. -Rumplestiltskin.
-You cannot write an epic whose hero turns around before the gates of hell. -Virgil.
-Anything taken in excess can kill us. -Dr. Ricky Starks._- But with some things you leave this world with a smile on your lips. -Pharmacist.