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

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

“there's no solid ground,. i learn to dance on a tilting one instead.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“She's staring at me with a bomb and her brilliance between us, and I'm twisting a paper towel fuse with the kind of trust I didn't think I could give another person.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“We're all gonna die because I waited for the bacon donuts”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I didn’t fall for Iris like a ton of bricks. I fell like I was a star and she was the end of the world. A cataclysmic crash of two people, never to be the same. Never getting back up. Not unless we were doing it together.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“You can make vows of loyalty to each other like medieval knights next week. I’ll weave some flower crowns and wear a nice dress for the occasion.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Broken girls, both of us, growing up into women with cracks plastered rough over where smooth should be.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“If you think I didn’t stab that asshole, you have not been paying attention. Because that’s exactly what I did.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“My heart has a piece of Wes wrapped around it like a bandage. My skin will hold the memory of him as permanent, because you don’t forget the first person to touch you with love after life’s taught you all touch is fear and pain.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“I'd never felt more instantly connected to a person in my life. I didn't love her immediately. I was already too wary for that. But I recognized something in her, something I wanted to be but couldn't even articulate yet: free.”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“Came into the world with a lie on my lips”
― Tess Sharpe, The Girls I've Been

“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

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“very nature of his ailment continues to baffle me, and baffle us all. What is the source of this abnormality? Everywhere we observe plants, animals, systems with a core. Every flower has its seed. Every animal its heart. Every masterpiece its inspiration. Yet the answers I seek elude me. There is a root somewhere in his brain, a twisted root that sprouts madness and malice. I will find it. No matter the cost, no matter the difficulty, I will find it. I will live a truly great life. My colleagues will no doubt hang me metaphorically, but I say let them hang. Legality, morality, sympathy aside, I will pull madness out by its black root, and I will leave a legacy no man, however sanctimonious, can fault. 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

“Dan might not have been a social wizard, but he knew that asking questions was not the right thing to do just now.”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there,
Wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams
No mortal ever dreamed before. —EDGAR ALLAN POE”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Dan's last thought before he fell was of her, of how pretty she looked just then, poised as if dancing, her lips parted and her dark braid coming undone”
― Madeleine Roux, Asylum

“Oh well... I'd just been thinking, if you had died, you'd have been welcome to share my toilet.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Of all the trees we could've hit, we had to get one that hits back.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets