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1 " Age isn’t quite an accurate measurement for adulthood. It’s what you experience that makes you older, not the barcode in your passport,” he says. “A few weeks ago you cared whether you were mad or not, whether you were doing the right thing or not. Hell in heavens, a few weeks ago you still cared about your past and held it like a chip on your shoulder, not knowing that the past has passed. It doesn’t matter. We all messed up in the past, or there would’ve been no point in the future.” I "
― Cameron Jace , Looking Glass (Insanity, #9)
2 " Fact is persistent fiction. Fiction is inconsistent facts. Madness is inconsistent persistent.” ~Storykiller "
3 " What was wrong with living with the mad in a contained place where insanity was defined and recognized, not like the world outside where I can't tell which is which? "
4 " What's the meaning of life if we're all mad?" "Madness is not a disease, Alice. It's a coping mechanism. "
5 " greatest revenge against evil is to neglect it. It will take a piece of you, but you will not feed its fire. And then you will cross over. Wounded a little, but you will have survived—and you can always heal with time. The "
6 " Madness had this strange quality to it, one that people rarely consider; it made you forget the pain. "
7 " He himself used this strategy in his own life. Burying himself in insane, implausible books to keep his mind off the real insanity in the real world. I think it's genius. I think it's why we all read. "