I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow. Then one day, maybe many months after your decision to take your son out of school and isolate him in a house for reasons that got lost in your grief, one day that madness will stir in the chair, and it will say to him, 'You look pale. . Nathan Filer
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  2. My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness. - Unknown
  3. Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is soordinary that the whippers are in love too. - William Shakespeare
  4. He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad! " he annouced. - Douglas Adams
  5. Too much sanity may be madness – and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be! - Dale Wasserman
More Quotes By Nathan Filer
  1. I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are. I guess that's what turning eighteen means. Time to own it.
  2. I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.
  3. We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us.
  4. Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.
  5. This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.
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