Madeleine Roux Quotes

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

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? ~ Madeleine Roux

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

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

They are walking the line between genius and insanity. ~ Madeleine Roux

The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness. ~ Madeleine Roux

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

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. ~ Madeleine Roux

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even in his sleep he couldn't escape. ~ Madeleine Roux

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

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

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

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

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

In a reverse way, sharing my mother's long, slow dying consumes my creative energy. I manage one angry and bitter story, and feel better for it, but most of me is involved in Mother's battle. Watching her slowly being snuffed out is the opposite of pregnancy, depleting instead of fulfilling: I am exhausted by conflict. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I have always seen the United States as a force of good. And I have learned that there is the idealistic part about what we can do at the U.N. and there is a doable part. And I have learned what is more doable. ~ Madeleine Albright

Today we live in a society that seems to be less and less concerned with reality. We drink instant coffee and reconstituted orange juice. We buy our vegetables on cardboard trays covered with plastic. But perhaps the most dehumanizing thing of all is that we have allowed the media to call us consumers
ugly. No! I don't want to be a consumer. Anger consumes. Forest fires consume. Cancer consumes. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

In the end, I believe these pages and the Book of Records return to the persistence of this desire: to know the times in which we are alive. To keep the record that must be kept and also, finally, to let it go. ~ Madeleine Thien

Zane ran his thumb over Ty's cheek, seeing him suddenly with new eyes. Ty had never tried to be something he wasn't. He'd never tried to hide what he was. Warrior. Weapon. Bad guy. Zane knew what he was. The pain and betrayal faded. The world faded. ~ Abigail Roux

In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but because it is too wild and free for the timid. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. ~ Joseph Roux

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized. ~ Madeleine Albright

He groaned as soon as Zane touched him, bowing his back to bite at Zane's lip. Their foreheads pressed together, their gasps mingling, and Ty whispered "I love you" between each kiss. Zane ~ Abigail Roux

Mahmoud Abbas is a puppet. ~ Madeleine Albright

Zane sniffed and pried at a piece of glass in the heel of his hand. "My lucky streak is about played out."

"Want a little cheese with that whine, maestro?" Ty drawled. ~ Abigail Roux

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways. ~ Madeleine Albright

Someone would have to be out of their mind not to come back to you. I walked through a blizzard to get here. ~ Abigail Roux

Ty's knee occasionally brushed against his under the table as they ate, but the conversation died down as the food was passed around. It was an odd, remarkable feeling, to be eating breakfast with Ty and his family and feel not only welcome, but like he might belong there.
Zane ~ Abigail Roux

The concerto's beauty was even more impassioned than he remembered, and also more piteous and quiet and restrained, and he clasped his hands together to absorb both the grief and joy in his body. ~ Madeleine Thien

...and I know he's something more. I guess I'll just have to accept it without understanding it... Maybe that's really the point I was trying to put across. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

If I'd been there, I might have been able to do something. But I wasn't, and I lost them."
"And if you'd been there," Ty said softly, "I would have lost you. ~ Abigail Roux

Zane rolled his eyes. "Galloping crazies."
Ty squeezed his hand. "Well, you said you liked horses. ~ Abigail Roux

He was wearing a white shirt with a picture of a scarecrow on it accompanied by the words "out standing in his field." Not one of the watching agents gave it a second glance. It was, they all knew, his favorite shirt. ~ Abigail Roux

Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest upon them as heavily as though they possessed a measurable weight of their own. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life. ~ Madeleine Stowe

Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever finishes growing. Or shouldn't. If you stop you might as well quit. What I have to tell you is that it never gets any easier. It goes right on being rough forever. But nothing that's easy is worth anything. You ought to have learned that by now. What happens as you keep on growing is that all of a sudden you realize that it's more exciting and beautiful than scary and awful. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I can tell you that the biggest factors affecting your sex life come from within. ~ Madeleine Castellanos

Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back. ~ Madeleine Peyroux

Yes, things catch fire," Shawn ground out as he switched the safety off and cocked the gun threateningly, letting it dig even further into Brandt's cheek. "But hotel rooms do not just catch fire! Automobiles do not just catch fire! And my favorite pair of sweatpants do not just catch fire! ~ Abigail Roux

We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation ... works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the senses, all five of them; so that we, in turn, may hear the grass growing; see a face springing to life in love and laughter ... The offerings of creation ... our glimpses of truth. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

What color is it today? ~ Abigail Roux

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define. ~ Madeleine Albright

Now the red eyes and the light above seemed to bore into Charles, and again the pupils fo the little boy's eyes contracted. When the final point of black was lost in blue he turned away from the red eyes, looked at Meg, and smiled sweetly, but the smile was not Charles Wallaces smile. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance. ~ Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...

Even travelling at the speed of light it would take us years and years to get here."
"Oh, we don´t travel at the speed of anything," Mrs Whatsit explained earnestly. "We tesser. Or you might say, we wrinkle. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

I had lost the habit of eating for pleasure and ate only to satisfy hunger ~ Madeleine Brent