Alicia’s refusal to speak after her husband's murder isn’t just silence, it's a mystery, a message, and a shield.
→ Lesson: Not everything unspoken is empty.
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The Silent Patient is a mystery-thriller novel by Alex Michaelides. It’s about a famous painter named Alicia Berenson who kills her husband one night, and then never speaks a word again.
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