Quote by Henry James

“She had just enough madness to make her interesting”

— Atticus Poetry

“She has to admit privately that she may be mad. Although if so, it is a merciless, clear-sighted sort of madness and not at…

— Nick Harkaway

“Wise as she was, she realized that people can postpone their rebellious phases until they're eighty-five years old, and she decided to keep an…

— Tove Jansson

“But as Joy grew older, she often found that what seemed “reasonable” to everyone else seemed completely insane to her.”

— P.J. Bracegirdle

“She felt herself age suddenly, but also knew what she now desired: to reconcile and grow old in peace, and have the wit to…

— Orhan Pamuk

“she had been perfectly agreeable until I showed my face. That’s how it is with that kind of madness. Ninety-nine per cent of the…

— Peter Lovesey

“Her sanity was perhaps an unwarranted assumption.”

— David Drake

“As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

“She’d grown up in a strict household; she’d gone insane with freedom the minute she ran away and got out on her own.”

— Jim Butcher

“You left me this mad girl, and I love her well. She is braver and wilder than any of my sons.”

— Katherine Arden

“Since then, she had wondered if it were strength or a sort of madness that let her pretend she was normal.”

— Robin Hobb

“She was old; millions of years old, she felt. And at last, she could bear the burden of herself no more.”

— D.H. Lawrence