Top 40 Madeleine Roux Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I wish this were just a nightmare that we could wake up from.”

— Madeleine Roux

2. “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

3. “You can’t do over what’s already been done, but you sure can undo it. Not easy, but you can undo it.”

— Madeleine Roux

4. “It was a house for those who could not take care of themselves, for those who heard voices, who had strange thoughts and did strange things. The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.”

— Madeleine Roux

5. “She left me. All this time she was gone, I didn’t know if she was dead or just didn’t want me. But now it doesn’t matter. I choose my new parents and I choose my friends. I choose the family I made. I choose me.”

— Madeleine Roux

6. “Silence gave the shadows and the darkness power.”

— Madeleine Roux

7. “The cursor changed to the spinning wheel of sadness.”

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8. “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

9. “A truly great life. That is what humanity deserves. Not an average life, not even a normal one-a life in which genius is not an anomaly but an expectation. But to achieve such things.”

— Madeleine Roux

10. “They are walking the line between genius and insanity.”

— Madeleine Roux

11. “The house was meant to keep them in. Once they came, they never left.”

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12. “In a mad world only the mad are sane.”

— Madeleine Roux

13. “There is, I think, a way in which my ideas can live forever. All men seek immortality in their own way, either through a legacy of children carrying their name and genetic material, through architecture, through science, and this now is simply my search for a legacy like no other.” – Asylum, Madeleine Roux.”

— Madeleine Roux

14. “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

15. “He was many things right now. and he felt like he was being pulled in a million conflicting directions.”

— Madeleine Roux

16. “Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.”

— Madeleine Roux

17. “Wow, did Tim Burton binge on Laffy Taffy and vomit all over this place or what?” Jordan whispered.”

— Madeleine Roux

18. “It wasn’t enough that the warden was in his head; now he was in his body too.”

— Madeleine Roux

19. “It was a fight against the madness, he felt like he was losing. Maybe he already had...”

— Madeleine Roux

20. “My way of life is objectively better because mine has Wi-Fi and Netflix.”

— Madeleine Roux

21. “To control the now is a simple thing, but to control the future? That is worth striving for.”

— Madeleine Roux

22. “In the last week, I’ve been attacked by shadows, a flock of birds, and a madman who ate his own daughter. I wouldn’t call it strength so much as self-preservation.”

— Madeleine Roux

23. “How many times did he have to learn that things could always get worse? His.”

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24. “The depressing thing is, it seems despite the zombies, humans are still their own worst enemies. Allison.”

— Madeleine Roux

25. “The thing about memories was, you never could control when they came up again.”

— Madeleine Roux

26. “Am I the only one getting a god-awful Dolores Umbridge vibe off of her?”

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27. “Abby’s eyes seemed almost as vacant as those of the girl in the photograph. Then a shiver came over her and she blinked. Gently, almost affectionately, she put the picture back on the wall. She touched it one last time and said, “Poor little bird. I wonder if she ever escaped her cage.”

— Madeleine Roux

28. “There is no more wisdom in order than in chaos.”

— Madeleine Roux

29. “Sometimes, Dan, friends have to take a stand and say: Hey, idiot, we’re here for you no matter what. We’re not going to disappear when you get grumpy or angry, we’re in this for the long haul. We’re in this for each other.”

— Madeleine Roux

30. “Nothing was permanent. Any city could crumble, but foes could also become allies, even friends. There was no more wisdom in cynicism than in optimism.”

— Madeleine Roux

31. “The desire to simultaneously wither, die and crap my pants is compelling, but so is the desire to maintain a fleeting iota of dignity. I’m hallucinating, badly, and either my high school health teacher said something about not mixing prescription meds and alcohol or those Lorazepam were past their expiration date.”

— Madeleine Roux

32. “Only the fool thinks himself an expert in everything. The wise man admits his limitations and endeavors to know more.”

— Madeleine Roux

33. “To go forth,” he said softly. “That is the mandate of the soul.”

— Madeleine Roux

34. “They would have the talk eventually, of course, Mathias would get out somehow. This time it wouldn’t be on a ship where they could be interrupted by storm or sailors. That cabin might be the perfect location, come to think of it.”

— Madeleine Roux

35. “Misfortune finds us all,” Lee said. He sounded older, suddenly. Wiser. “The only difference is in when and how you resolve to face it.”

— Madeleine Roux

36. “The end is still unwritten. Let’s hope it’s a happy one.”

— Madeleine Roux

37. “I myself have withered like the winter tree before blossoming anew. In all that time and chaos, I knew sorrow and elation, but I was never ‘fine’. I submerged myself completely in the pain and in the pleasure.”

— Madeleine Roux

38. “History is nothing to be afraid of.”

— Madeleine Roux

39. “There is order to their madness, and order signifies purpose. Purpose signifies a goal.”

— Madeleine Roux

40. “Deep in the rabbit warrens of the ruins, a gong sounded.”

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41. “Mathias had never observed the other man from this distance. He hadn’t noticed that Flynn smelled as strongly of salt and soap as he did of whiskey, and the combination was intoxicating.”

— Madeleine Roux

42. “All new beginnings, I’d learned, started off brightly and ended in shade. If something felt too good to be true, it invariably was.”

— Madeleine Roux

43. “Ya saw the Maw, boy. A hopeless place that holds the darkest spirits. But now it be consumin’ every soul, no matta their deeds in life. Good or evil, thief or prince, they all go to the Maw. Nothin’ is as it should be.”

— Madeleine Roux

44. “It was a mother’s duty to worry, but a queen’s responsibility to endure.”

— Madeleine Roux

45. “Others might have thought it lonely, but I knew the refuge to be found in the company of only one’s own mind.”

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46. “Her followers wore loose black tunics and loincloths slashes with white stripes to mimic a spider’s many legs; some wore carved talismans, and others fearlessly allowed fat, furry tarantulas to crawl freely over their shoulders.”

— Madeleine Roux

47. “Don’t forget us,” he replied, her blood staining the white linen covering his heart. “But live. Live and live, and we will do the same.”

— Madeleine Roux

48. “I have a black thumb,” replied Lucien. He stopped himself from shrugging again. “And I’ve never been fond of children. How are their little hands always so disgusting?”

— Madeleine Roux

49. “Heads half-glued together, Abby and Lara had engaged in rapid-fire chitchat as they all hurried across campus.”

— Madeleine Roux