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“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

“Hope is a demon. It toys with you, it flirts, and then when you start to trust it, it vanishes.”
― Rose Carlyle, The Girl in the Mirror

“When people feel insecure, they create a grand self-image in an attempt to compensate for what is lacking internally. They present this façade to the world in order to hide the emptiness they feel, thus falling in love with the idea of themselves. But, if you threaten their self-image—threaten to expose the thing they love most, themselves—they will react, often in a hostile manner.”
― Tiffany D. Jackson, Allegedly