9 Quotes & Sayings By Madeleine Roux

Madeleine Roux is a Canadian author. She has received literary awards including the Toronto Book Awards, the EDGAR Award for Best First Novel, the Writers’ Trust of Canada Journey Prize, and the Elsie Awards for Short Fiction. She also won the Ottawa Medical Association Literary Award for short fiction. Roux's short fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in literary journals across North America Read more

Her first collection of stories, Asymmetry , was published by Doubleday Canada in November 2010.

You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are...
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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
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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
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Are you depressed? What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone? Madeleine Roux
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Are you depressed?"" What? I don't know. Probably. Isn't everyone? Madeleine Roux
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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
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I’m lonely, and he can see it. Maybe everyone can see it. Madeleine Roux
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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. Madeleine Roux
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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