20 Quotes from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides

Hello. Here is a list of 20 quotes that I liked and saved while reading The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides. I hope you will like them too. By the way, I am Deepak Kundu, an avid book reader, quotes collector and blogger.

The Maidens Quotes

  • 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.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Once you kill another human being, there’s no going back. I see that now. I see I have become altogether a different person. It’s a bit like being reborn, I suppose. But no ordinary birth – it’s a metamorphosis. What emerges from the ashes is not a phoenix, but an uglier creature: deformed, incapable of flight, a predator using its claws to cut and rip.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • We all secretly hope that tragedy will only ever happen to other people. But Mariana knew, sooner or later, it happens to you.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • What sheltered lives we live here in the cloister – naive, perhaps even wilfully ignorant of the horrors of the outside world.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Reading about life was no preparation for living it.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • It’s important to keep looking ahead. You mustn’t forever look back, over your shoulder. Think about the future.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • After we die, all that remains of us is a mystery; and our possessions, of course, to be picked over by strangers.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • If you’re not aware of the transcendent, if you’re not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you’re lucky enough to be part of – if that doesn’t fill you with joy and strike you with awe … you might as well not be alive.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Farmers, like kings, have need of many sons.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Don’t glorify the events of your life and try to give them meaning. There is no meaning. Life means nothing. Death means nothing.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Mariana might not be a detective, but she was a therapist, and she knew how to listen. To listen not only to what was being said, but also to everything unsaid, all the words unspoken – the lies, evasions, projections, transferences, and other psychological phenomena that occurred between two people.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • You’re a beautiful woman, but you have more than beauty. You have a certain quality – a stillness. Like the stillness in the depths of the ocean, far beneath the waves, where nothing moves. Very still … and very sad.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • It was strange, how moments of extreme clarity often had the same texture as drunkenness.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • It’s not easy, being so open and receptive to another human being, you’re able to feel their feelings … It’s a poisoned chalice in many ways. I’ve always thought so.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • We should always pay attention when our body tells us something.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • I believe that children will do anything to be loved. When they’re very young, it’s a matter of physical, then psychological survival. They’ll do whatever it takes to be cared for. And some people take advantage of that.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • It must be obvious – the answer must be right there in front of her. But still, she couldn’t grasp it – it was like trying to assemble a jigsaw puzzle in the dark.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • That was the funniest part of this whole performance: watching you play detective. You’re not the detective … You’re the victim.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides
  • Forgiveness could not be coerced – it was experienced spontaneously, as an act of grace, appearing only when a person was ready.Quote from The Maidens book by Alex Michaelides