Madeleine Roux > Quotes

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“In a mad world only the mad are sane.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“If someone tells you you're crazy enough times, eventually it becomes true. It's that old psychiatrist's joke: insanity's all in your head.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“There is, I think, a way in which my ideas can live forever. All men seek immortality in their own way, either through a legacy of children carrying their name and genetic material, through architecture, through science, and this now is simply my search for a legacy like no other." - Asylum, Madeleine Roux”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Even in his sleep he couldn't escape.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Sometimes, Dan, friends have to take a stand and say:
Hey, idiot, we’re here for you no matter what. We’re not
going to disappear when you get grumpy or angry, we’re in
this for the long haul. We’re in this for each other.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.”
― Madeleine Roux, Allison Hewitt Is Trapped

“The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“As much as he liked the idea of having best friends with whom he could share anything. it was like all he knew how to be was alone, apart.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Abby's eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, "Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“It was a fight against the madness, he felt like he was losing. Maybe he already had...”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“You can’t do over what’s already been done, but you sure can undo it. Not easy, but you can undo it.”
― Madeleine Roux, Sanctum

“They are walking the line between genius and insanity.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’s
you and me and Renny and Ted with nothing but time on our hands. I hope it’s, I don’t know, crossing an immeasurable distance with your closest friends.”
― Madeleine Roux, Allison Hewitt Is Trapped

“A truly great life. That is what humanity deserves. Not an average life, not even a normal one-a life in which genius is not an anomaly but an expectation. But to achieve such things”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“They built it out of stone—dark gray stone, pried loose from the unforgiving mountains. It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“He was many things right now. and he felt like he was being pulled in a million conflicting directions.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.”
― Madeleine Roux, The Scarlets

“Sanctum, a holy or sacred place. What could be more sacred than possessing the power of your own true thoughts? Sanctum. It is both lock and key.”
― Madeleine Roux, Sanctum

“Am I the only one getting a god-awful Dolores Umbridge vibe off of her?”
― Madeleine Roux, Sanctum

“Silence gave the shadows and the darkness power”
― Madeleine Roux, Sanctum

“History is nothing to be afraid of.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Q: How do you kill a hydra?
A: You strike at its heart.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“You should find yourself a better path. A God-fearing path. Maybe it would brighten those eyes.

How fear would brighten my eyes, I could not say.”
― Madeleine Roux, House of Furies

“Are you depressed?

What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone?”
― Madeleine Roux, The Asylum Novellas

“A truly great life. That is what humanity deserves. Not an average life, not even a normal one—a life in which genius is not an anomaly but an expectation.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum