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“Because psychopaths tend to target individuals who are especially empathetic and trusting, the best way to win a target is to appeal to her decency. The psychopath will weave an elaborate sob story, pouring his heart out to his target and making her feel not only sympathetic to the psychopath’s “bad luck” but also extremely flattered that the psychopath has chosen her to divulge his deepest secrets to.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
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“There exists in some individuals more than enough talents, expertises, or greatness for more than three people.”
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![Jen Waite](https://cdn.statically.io/img/i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1590504516i/16183203._UY200_CR13,0,200,200_.jpg)
“When you really don’t like your partner, you need to be in love with them, and when you fall out of love with them, you need to like them.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
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“Some sociopathic individuals absolutely know that they suffer from a personality disorder and use it to their advantage. Marco sounds like he lacks empathy and an inner moral compass but that he truly justifies his actions to himself. That’s to say, it sounds like he believes his own lies.”
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
― A Beautiful, Terrible Thing: A Memoir of Marriage and Betrayal
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“I have spent my life clinging to my own shores for safety. Flying like a bird above the storm waters of my own body, too scared to land. I guess that is why the sea floods in to visit me. I have been too frightened to venture out into her depths alone. The central core of me is dark and churning, I can only sense it vaguely. It scares me with its power. As a late-diagnosed autistic woman, I realise that this experience is partly neurological…my sensory abilities are all hyper-aroused on the surface, and my nervous system melts down when it becomes overwhelmed in everyday places. But my ability to know what is going on within is flawed. Instead of an accurate information readout, there is a big, dark, unknowable mass within. I am sailing blind without map or lighthouse within my own skin. It feels a very scary place to have a life sentence. This is why I write: to attempt to find words for what this big scariness is, to try and find images to give form and name to the wild churning expanse.
Pearce, Lucy H.. She of the Sea”
― She of the Sea
Pearce, Lucy H.. She of the Sea”
― She of the Sea
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