Trying hard Quote by D.A. Rice

“In his own way he recognized his madness, and that was the sort of thing mad people did, right enough.”

— Stephen King

“Madness. That’s what it was. And I could no longer contain it.”

— Melanie Harlow

“I wanted to believe he was mad. Unfortunately, I no longer knew what madness was.”

— James Lee Burke

“He had always imagined madness as a flailing hysteria, subdued only by restraint or drugs. Not this dulled indifference that slowed his footsteps and…

— Laura Elliot

“This was insanity. This was coming out of my mouth and it was madness.”

— Lou Ann Walker

“He had to treat him as the maniac he obviously was. The fact that his insanity was dressed in religious trappings meant nothing.”

— Iain M. Banks

“His own naivety taunted him like a flicker of madness.”

— Jane Harper

“He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”

— William Golding

“It was another one of his enigmatic brainteasers that he never elaborated on. I should have pressed for more, but I was too busy…

— Jodi Ellen Malpas

“It was madness. And, as Finan had said, sometimes madness works.”

— Bernard Cornwell

“He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that…

— Jaimy Gordon