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1 " There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about. "
― Madeleine Roux , The Scarlets (Asylum #1.5)
2 " 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 , House of Furies (House of Furies, #1)
3 " 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 (Asylum, #2)
4 " Are you depressed?What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone? "
― Madeleine Roux , The Asylum Novellas: The Scarlets / The Bone Artists / The Warden (Asylum, #1.5, 2.5, 3.5)
5 " 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 (Asylum, #1)
6 " I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it. "
― Madeleine Roux , Allison Hewitt Is Trapped (Zombie, #1)
7 " And if they do, I hope heaven is a road trip. I hope it’syou 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. "
8 " No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness. "
9 " In a mad world, only the mad are sane. "
― Madeleine Roux , The Asylum Collection (Asylum, #1-2)
10 " Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. "
11 " 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. "
12 " It's hardly your fault that Leia did not apply herself more rigorously. I wouldn't worry. I'm struggling to imagine a situation in which fluent shyriiwook would benefit her. "
― Madeleine Roux
13 " 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. "
14 " 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. "
15 " In a mad world only the mad are sane. "
16 " Even in his sleep he couldn't escape. "
17 " 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 "
18 " Sometimes, Dan, friends have to take a stand and say:Hey, idiot, we’re here for you no matter what. We’re notgoing to disappear when you get grumpy or angry, we’re inthis for the long haul. We’re in this for each other. "
19 " You can’t do over what’s already been done, but you sure can undo it. Not easy, but you can undo it. "
20 " I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from. "
