“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, quote from Asylum
“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“In a mad world only the mad are sane.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“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, quote from Asylum
“Even in his sleep he couldn't escape.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“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, quote from Asylum
“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, quote from Asylum
“I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“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, quote from Asylum
“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, quote from Asylum
“He was many things right now. and he felt like he was being pulled in a million conflicting directions.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“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, quote from Asylum
“They built it out of stone—dark gray stone, pried loose from the unforgiving mountains. 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, quote from Asylum
“They are walking the line between genius and insanity.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“It was a fight against the madness, he felt like he was losing. Maybe he already had...”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“Q: How do you kill a hydra?
A: You strike at its heart.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“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.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“No deberías desperdiciar tu vida soñando con otra diferente”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“If this was a fight against madness, he felt like he was losing. Maybe he already had.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“La locura es relativa. Depende de quién tiene a quién encerrado en qué jaula.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“En un mundo loco, solo los locos están cuerdos.”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
“La cuestión con los recuerdos es que nunca puedes controlar cuándo volverán a aparecer”
― Madeleine Roux, quote from Asylum
Madeleine Roux
Born place: in The United States
Born date June 12, 1985
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“Bad things happen when good people pretend nothing is wrong.”
― Corey Taylor, quote from Seven Deadly Sins: Settling the Argument Between Born Bad and Damaged Good
“نجتث الحشائش السامة لا الأزهار من حديقة الذكريات”
― Jerome K. Jerome, quote from Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
“A beastly ambition, which the gods grant thee t'
attain to! If thou wert the lion, the fox would
beguile thee; if thou wert the lamb, the fox would
eat three: if thou wert the fox, the lion would
suspect thee, when peradventure thou wert accused by
the ass: if thou wert the ass, thy dulness would
torment thee, and still thou livedst but as a
breakfast to the wolf: if thou wert the wolf, thy
greediness would afflict thee, and oft thou shouldst
hazard thy life for thy dinner: wert thou the
unicorn, pride and wrath would confound thee and
make thine own self the conquest of thy fury: wert
thou a bear, thou wouldst be killed by the horse:
wert thou a horse, thou wouldst be seized by the
leopard: wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to
the lion and the spots of thy kindred were jurors on
thy life: all thy safety were remotion and thy
defence absence. What beast couldst thou be, that
were not subject to a beast? and what a beast art
thou already, that seest not thy loss in
transformation!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Timon of Athens
“...Aldersgate Street, the bottom of the A1 - which was the modern designation of the original Great North Road, built by the Romans two thousand years ago to march its garrisons to the very edge of the empire three hundred miles to the north. Their duty was to reinforce Hadrian's Wall, keeping the outer darkness at bay and the empire safe.”
― Peter F. Hamilton, quote from Great North Road
“For centuries the writing-desk has contained sheets fit precisely for the communication of friends. Masters of language, poets of long ages, have turned from the sheet that endures to the sheet that perishes, pushing aside the tea-tray, drawing close to the fire (for letters are written when the dark presses around a bright red cave), and addressed themselves the task of reaching, touching, penetrating the individual heart.”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from Jacob's Room
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