#mad

And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE. ↗

— Elizabeth Wein

#maddie-bradott #nonsense

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#talking-to-yourself #nonsense

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting. ↗

— John Russell

#interesting #madness #more #sanity

It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means you’re happy, too. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#yearning #madness

Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. ↗

— George Orwell

#madness

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#madness

The only difference between me and a madman is I'm not mad. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#sanity #madness

So you’re suggesting we take the train up to York, meet a ninety-year-old man, leap on him, and yank out his hair? I’m sure the Clave will be ecstatic.” “They’ll just say you’re mad,” said Jessamine. “They already think it, so what’s the difference, really? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem #jessamine #tessa #will #madness

If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous end! ↗

— H.P. Lovecraft

#madness #madness

Sometimes the only choice is between acceptance and madness. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#madness