por The psychoanalyst is a psychological thriller written by the American journalist and writer John Katzenbach. The novel was published in 2002 and translated and published in Spanish in 2003. It was a bestseller in Latin America and the United States.
It is a tense narrative about a psychoanalyst who receives a letter signed Rumplestiltskin, in which, after 15 days, he must discover the identity of the sender, otherwise he must commit suicide or watch the relatives named in the letter die. without him being able to do anything. In the key of a macabre game, the instructions to follow are indicated. The story then becomes a detective search to discover who could be the author of such an ultimatum, mixed with the obvious despair of the protagonist.
We have made a selection of the best quotes of The psychoanalystone of the best-selling books in 2004 in Spain and Latin America, and awarded the Grand Prix for detective literature that same year.
The best phrases of The psychoanalyst
-Happy 53rd birthday, doctor. Welcome to the first day of his 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 possibilities for things to 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’re afraid they’ll kill us. But it is much worse that they destroy us. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-The greatest luxury of our existence, however miserable it may be, is that we do not know the days in which luck has touched us. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Life is nothing more than that. One game after another. And death is the greatest game of all. -Dr. Lewis.
-Hands are not really dangerous. What is truly dangerous is what we have in our heads. -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 they mean. 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 a woman’s body for the first time. Especially the body of a woman he doesn’t know. A vision that is all adventure. His gaze cascades down, like water off a cliff. -Virgil.
-He told me that 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.
-The 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 then, when the creation goes wrong, we want to blame others, when normally we are responsible. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Nothing that happens is isolated. A single bad act can have all kinds of repercussions. -Storyteller.
-Nobody can start over, at least that I know of. We all say that we want to find a way to start life over, but that’s not how it is. -Sergeant.
-Even bad poets love death. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-It was almost a luxury to be engulfed by so much anonymity. -Storyteller.
-People without imagination and without ideas fill their heads with procedures, people with character know when to dispense with procedures. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-There are many ways to kill someone. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
Just because something bothers you doesn’t mean you should ignore it. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Do to others before others have the opportunity to do to you. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-But you can be sure of something: my anger knows no limits. – Rumplestiltskin.
– Accept the madness. Create the delirium. Set 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 brings is, in the best of cases, a new way of seeing who one is, and allowing that new definition of one’s life to influence the decisions and choices that the future entails. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
«A pretty enough night to die for.» -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. He regards the words spoken as a means of arriving at the truth. I consider them a means to hide it. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Even psychopaths are vulnerable to their desires. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Don’t those we love and respect hurt us more than those we hate and have? -Dr. Lewis.
-Impersonal places for men and women who make money and spend it as quickly as possible and who think that somehow that makes sense. – Dr. Ricky Starks.
-Normally, we get in each other’s way. -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 to be. -Storyteller.
-Certainty is a wonderful presumption. -Marline.
-No one really apologizes. They say it, but it’s never true. -Sergeant.
-Fear is a strange thing. It manifests itself in many external ways, but none of them as powerful as the steel that pierces 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. -Storyteller.
-Dreams were unconscious and important riddles that reflected the soul. -Storyteller.
-What does a psychoanalyst do? It establishes very simple but inviolable rules. -Dr. Ricky Starks.
-But it’s curious, don’t you think, doctor? May the truth be even stronger than death. -Dr. Ricky Starks as “Dr. Roth”.
-Craziness. But a madness 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. He filled all my moments with disaster and sadness. He ruined my life. And now I am determined to ruin yours. – Rumplestiltskin.
-You cannot write an epic whose hero turns around at 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.