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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.

Patrick McGrath Trauma ghosts reality trauma

Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.

Patrick McGrath Trauma conversation sex

Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and h…

Patrick McGrath alcohol asylum crying gin infidelity

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

Patrick McGrath The Grotesque loneliness solitude

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

Patrick McGrath Trauma awkwardness isolation loneliness

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…

Patrick McGrath Trauma death madness snow suicide trauma

Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.

Patrick McGrath The Grotesque fate habits will

A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Patrick McGrath Dr. Haggard's Disease silence

Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?

Patrick McGrath affair infidelity lust

For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in…

Patrick McGrath Asylum jealousy

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Unscramble PATRICK 7-letter words that start with P 7-letter words that end in K 7-letter words containing AT 7-letter words containing CK 7-letter words with P and A

Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day

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N

Hint 1 meaning

The old plural of Eye.

Hint 2 anagram

NEE

Hint 3 another clue

AND STILL ___

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