Madeleine Roux Quotes

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.

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.

Even in his sleep he couldn't escape.

The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.

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.

I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.

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.

The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness.

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.

Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus.

I'm lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it.

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.

She left me. All this time she was gone, I didn't know if she was dead or just didn't want me. But now it doesn't matter. I choose my new parents and I choose my friends. I choose the family I made. I choose me.

You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are lovely to my eye.'
'You're brave or daft, then,' she said, quite rightly. 'Chaos and ruin. Where does that leave me, then?

He was many things right now. and he felt like he was being pulled in a million conflicting directions.

Q: How do you kill a hydra?
A: You strike at its heart.

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

They are walking the line between genius and insanity.

It wasn't enough that the warden was in his head; now he was in his body too.

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

My way of life is objectively better because mine has Wi-Fi and Netflix.

You can't do over what's already been done, but you sure can undo it. Not easy, but you can undo it.