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Breath (from the book Blue Bridge)Whispering to myself	With every step I take,Trying out names, for I know	There is something yet to be called …..I know it, something up ahead	Just around the bendOr over the rise –	A bird taking to the skyFrom the edge of a jagged cliff – A bird floating outwardsIn silence ……. A silence	Waiting for a footstepTo crunch on stones,	For a voice to fling upwardThrough sharp sunlight	With a name…… callingBefore the bird could call	Before the bird called.Oh the bird was there alright	And sure it took flightWhen it heard me approach	But it broke my heartWith a mighty croak!So I’m sitting here playing	With a purple flowerSlender stem, no leaves	Purple fizz –And it’s quiet again.	I am stillI am nothing	And the hillIs a long, long slope	Down, down, down to the seaFar below.I could roll	I could runI could scream	But I am nothing.A cool wind blows	And the light is naked and namelessAnd the rocks are faces of angels	And the bird in the sky wheelsAnd cries to forget the earth	And its ancient bones –Oh, sensual pain –	Wings…. Wings…. Wings,Singing wings.If only I could begin To describe the emptinessWhich fills me to the brim	With new breathI might almost lose my name	And take instead a feather for my soul.
— Jay Woodman
Your name. That’s all I want.” I debate on whether or not I should explain to him that my name isn't going to help him in his stalking endeavours.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I stop stretching and face him, unwilling to back down from this visual standoff. I'm not going to let him perform his little Jedi mind tricks on me, no matter how much I wish I could perform them on him. He’s completely unreadable and even more unpredictable. It pisses me off.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
A beautiful poem is like a beautiful sky and a beautiful sky is like a beautiful poem!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
...knowing too that [the sky] was just a kind of rainbow made it glorious. A rainbow that was blue everywhere and covered everything.
— Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312
In Egypt, like everywhere, the land is made to fit the sky; but here it is more so. Here it is possible to say, “This is land," and point, and “This is sky," and point, but the eyes can’t discover the dividing line.
— Helen Oyeyemi, Mr. Fox
You have to let it go. You can hold on to the hate and the love and even the bitterness, but you have to go of the blame. The blame is what's tearing you down, babe." -Sky
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
My eyes trail from his hand to the tattoo written in small script across his forearm. Hopeless
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I love how you aren't weird and awkward, despite the fact that you've been severely cut off from socialization to the point where you make the Amish look trendy.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
You have a nice mouth," he says. "I can't stop looking at it.""You should taste it. It's quite lovely.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I live you," I whisper to him. He kisses my head again and signs into my hair. "I don't think I live you back anymore. I'm pretty sure I've moved beyond that. Actually, I'm positive I've moved beyond that, but I'm still not ready to say it to you. When I say it, I want it to be separate from this day. I don't want you to remember it like this.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I pull his mouth to mine and I kiss him. I kiss him for always having the perfect thing to say. I kiss him for always being there for me. I kiss him for supporting whatever decision I think I might need to make. I kiss him for being so patient with me while I figure everything out. I kiss him because I can’t think of anything better than climbing back inside that car with him and talking about everything we’ll do when we get to Hawaii. - Sky
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
It's amazing what the sound of a voice you've been longing to hear can do to your heart. He spoke five words just now, but in the time it took him to speak those five words, my heart was shredded and minced, then placed back inside my chest with the expectation that it should somehow know how to beat again.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Feel free to look around, but being as though there aren't any people eighteen or older here, stay off the bed. I'm not allowed to get pregnant this weekend.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
It’s killing me, baby,” he says, his voice much more calm and quiet. “It’s killing me because I don’t want you to go another day without knowing how I feel about you. And I’m not ready to tell you I’m in love with you, because I’m not. Not yet. But whatever this is I’m feeling—it’s so much more than just like. It’s so much more. And for the past few weeks I’ve been trying to figure it out. I’ve been trying to figure out why there isn’t some other word to describe it. I want to tell you exactly how I feel but there isn’t a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but I need that word. I need it because I need you to hear me say it.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae.
— Philip Plait, Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
But I’ve kept first of March as my birthday as I like to tease Zed about dating an older woman. And my parents wouldn’t understand if I told them about the soulfinder bond and tried to change it.”“They don’t know?”“Well, I think they’ve picked up that there’s something special between Zed and me but I’m not sure how I’d even start to explain to non-savants. I was exactly overjoyed when Zed filled me in about it all the first time.”“What did you do?”“Thumped him with a shopping bag and told him he was a jerk.”“Ouch.
— Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
Whatever connection we thought we had before this...it doesn't compare to this moment. No matter what happens between us in life, this moment has just merged pieces of our souls together. Well always have that, and in a way it's comforting to know.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I think I'd rather be heading to detention right now than to talk to him. My stomach is tied up in so many knots it could make a boy scout envious.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
My locker seems to have become the hub for sticky notes and nasty letters, none of which I ever see actually being placed on or in my locker. I really don’t get what people gain out of doing things like this if they don’t even own up to it.Like the note that was stuck to my locker this morning. All it said was, “Whore.”Really? Where’s the creativity in that? They couldn’t back it up with an interesting story? Maybe a few details of my indiscretion? If I have to read this shit every day, the least they could do is make it interesting. If I was going to stoop so low as to leave an unfounded note on someone’s locker,I’d at least have the courtesy of entertaining whoever reads it in the process. I’d write something interesting like, “I saw you in bed with my boyfriend last night. I really don’t appreciate you getting massage oil on my cucumbers. Whore.” I laugh and it feels odd, laughing out loud at my own thoughts. I look around and no one is left in the hallway but me. Rather than rip the sticky notes off of my locker like I probably should, I take out my pen and make them a little more creative. You’re welcome, passersby.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Karen shuts the back door and turns to me. “You know I trust you, but please…”“Don’t get pregnant,” I interrupt. “I know, I know. You’ve been saying that every time you leave for the past two years. I’m not getting pregnant, Mom. Only terribly high and cracked out.”She laughs and hugs me. “Good girl. And wasted. Don’t forget to get really wasted.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Glancing in through the open door to Xav’s room, I saw Zed stretched out on the queen mattress, his arm hugging a pillow as if he felt Sky’s absence at his side.
— Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
Oh my gosh, don’t you both look pretty!” We looked like rejects from the auditions for The Sound of Music.“I will have to buy them – they are meant to be yours!” Karla waved her credit card around like a wand.“What a shame they didn’t have one in green for me. But then, it is a young girl’s style. I would’ve looked foolish.
— Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
Sky. Hope mixed with horror as I searched for Zed, quessing he would not have let his soulfinder walk into this situation alone. I finally identified him as the heavily bearded drummer in the flowery shirt and, yes, socks and sandals. I bit my tongue, repressing the absurd desire to laugh at his fashion sacrifice for our cause.
— Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
I revised my opinion that the girl was timid. She appeared to have her giant well under control and a disturbing ability to know what I was feeling.
— Joss Stirling, Stealing Phoenix
I can't help but watch his lips as they cover the opening of the bottle that my lips were just touching. We're practically kissing.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
I am permitted to travel in the corridor between sky and heather" from the poem "Beyond the Beacon" in TerraAffirmative
— Jay Woodman, Riding the Escalator and Terra Affirmative
...That Great Cocktail Cabinet in the Sky...
— Nigella Lawson, Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home
Does not-your boyfriend realize I'm Mormon?"I nod. "It turns out, Holder doesn't have an issue with Mormons at all. He just has an issue with assholes.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
It's crap that you're letting on bad year determine your fate for the rest of your life.
— Colleen Hoover, Hopeless
Get out of here. Yoda so does not have an English accent!''Other than that you're saying I'm a dead ringer?''If the shoe fits.''Sheesh, I hate tall girls.
— Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
Fine, I'll teach you,''Besides, there's only so many times a girl wants to fall on her butt in front of the boy she's out to impress.
— Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
Wisdom you speak, Obi Tina.''None of that - I'm the one who gets to speak backwards - no, we're both wrong - that's the little green guy, Yoda.''You're right. So I just get to pout and act badly when you try and teach me anything.''Try channelling Luke rather than Annakin - the outcome is better.
— Joss Stirling, Finding Sky
For this, for you, my heart will burnIt whispers to me, what I speak now in turn:If the sun should hide, let it hide;If darkness drain the light, on moonbeams we ride.It matters not,For I am by your side.If the sky should fall, let it fall;If Death open his wings, ignore his dark call;Let the stars fade, let worlds collide;Let the seas boil, let chaos hold back the tide.It matters not,For you are by my side.
— Alexis Steinhauer, Dragon's Flight
Tonight the sky is the color of my heart, bleeding crimson for my love
— Paige Aufhammer
On day one of the drive, I saw my first dome sky. The world was so flat that I could see the level horizon all around me and the sky looked like a dome. Skies like that will give you perspective when nothing else will. The second day, a tumbleweed blew across the interstate. I’m in a western movie, I said to myself, laughing. I found it so much easier to laugh now that this weight had been lifted from my shoulders.
— Kimberly Novosel, Loved
The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead
— Tegan Quin
We look up, if only to see if we're likely to be rained on. The sky calls attention to itself, whether scored by herons, cranes, or wires; illumined by sunsets, Perseids, or ballparks; broken up by the twigwork of oaks or maples, painted in rainbows, or just primed in the pale gray of my '52 Ford. If we are truthful, the sky is never neutral.
— Robert Michael Pyle, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
Being crazy isn't enough.
— Dr. Seuss
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
— Albert Einstein
Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy. Like schizophrenics, psychopaths, maniacs. I mean people who are different from others.'Like you?'On the other hand,' Zedka continued, pretending not to have heard the remark, 'you have Einstein, saying that there was no time or space, just a combination of the two. Or Columbus, insisting that on the other side of the world lay not an abyss but a continent. Or Edmund Hillary, convinced that a man could reach the top of Everest. Or the Beatles, who created an entirely different sort of music and dressed like people from another time. Those people--and thousands of others--all lived in their own world.
— Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decide Morir - Tapa Azul
But I'm Crazy. I swear to God I am.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
There's a good kind of crazy, Kaylee," he insisted softly, reaching out to wrap his warm hand around mine. "It's the kind that makes you think about things that make your head hurt, because not thinking about them is the coward's way out. The kind that makes you touch people who bruise your soul, just because they need to be touched. This is the kind of crazy that lets you stare out into the darkness and rage at eternity, while it stares back at you, ready to swallow you whole." Tod leaned closer, staring into my eyes so intently I was sure he could see everything I was thinking, but too afraid to say. "I've seen you fight, Kaylee. I've seen you step into that darkness for someone else, then claw your way out, bruised, but still standing. You're that kind of crazy, and I live in that darkness. Together, we'd take crazy to a whole new level.
— Rachel Vincent, If I Die
But you are crazy.”“I know.” She lifted a small box from the basket. “Do you know how I know?”Scarlet didn't answer.“Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.” She shrugged, as if this were a perfectly normal thing to say. “No one believes me, but in some corridors, the blood has gotten so thick there's nowhere safe to step. When I have to pass through those places, I leave a trail of bloody footprints for the rest of the day, and then I worry that the queen's soldiers will follow the scent and eat me up while I'm sleeping. Some nights I don't sleep very well.” Her voice dropped to a haunted whisper, her eyes taking on a brittle luminescence. “But if the blood was real, the servants would clean it up. Don't you think?
— Marissa Meyer, Cress
Did I ever tell you about the manwho taught his asshole to talk?His whole abdomen would move up and down,you dig, farting out the words.It was unlike anything I ever heard. Bubbly, thick, stagnant sound. A sound you could smell. This man worked for the carnival,you dig? And to start with it waslike a novelty ventriloquist act.After a while,the ass started talking on its own.He would go inwithout anything prepared...and his ass would ad-liband toss the gags back at him every time. Then it developed sort of teethlike...little raspy incurving hooksand started eating.He thought this was cute at firstand built an act around it...but the asshole would eat its way throughhis pants and start talking on the street... shouting out it wanted equal rights.It would get drunk, too, and have crying jags.Nobody loved it. And it wanted to be kissed,same as any other mouth. Finally, it talked all the time,day and night. You could hear him for blocks,screaming at it to shut up... beating at it with his fists... and sticking candles up it, but... nothing did any good,and the asshole said to him... "It is you who will shut upin the end, not me..."because we don't need youaround here anymore. I can talk and eat and shit." After that, he began waking upin the morning with transparentjelly... like a tadpole's tailall over his mouth. He would tear it off his mouthand the pieces would stick to his hands... like burning gasoline jellyand grow there. So, finally, his mouth sealed over... and the whole head... would have amputated spontaneouslyexcept for the eyes, you dig? That's the one thingthat the asshole couldn't do was see. It needed the eyes.Nerve connections were blocked... and infiltrated and atrophied. So, the brain couldn'tgive orders anymore. It was trapped inside the skull... sealed off.For a while, you could see... the silent, helpless sufferingof the brain behind the eyes. And then finallythe brain must have died... because the eyes went out... and there was no more feeling in themthan a crab's eye at the end of a stalk.
— William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch
You have no idea how crazy I am, I should be wearing yellow Caution tape, I'm that bonkers.
— Robin Benway, The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June
Sometimes I wish I knew how to go crazy. I forget how.
— Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly
You could have all the crazy thoughts you wanted, as long as you smiled and kept them to yourself.
— Mara Purnhagen, Past Midnight
And maybe she had certain beliefs that if you love somebody, [you're] gonna like them too. And that isn't necessarily true.
— Tori Amos
... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]
— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks.
— Jennifer Niven
He's as nutty as a vegan T-bone.
— David Sedaris
Crazy people don't know they're crazy. I know I'm crazy, therefore I'm not crazy, isn't that crazy?
— Captain Jack Sparrow
There's still always the possibility that I've gone totally, clinically cuckoo. But somehow I don't think so anymore.An article I once read said that crazy people don't worry about being crazy - that's the whole problem.
— Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Crazy gets all the knives.
— Seanan McGuire, Discount Armageddon
It might be a little bit crazy, even. Like, for real crazy. Not just 'oh isn't that charming and endearing' crazy but 'wow that might be a deep-seated psychological issue' crazy.
— Lauren Barnholdt, One Night That Changes Everything
I know that you know that I'm awesome, and that you know that I know that you're awesome!
— Shreya Gunna
Jennings saw this and held the gun up with his fingers splayed placatingly as if to show her that he wasn’t planning on using it. Not yet, anyway. “I don’t want to hurt you again, Lily,” he told her. “So just make sure you don’t do anything stupid, and I won’t.” At that moment, he reminded her of John Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank. He acted like he was making a reasonable request. As if there was justification for shooting someone thirty times.
— Heather Killough-Walden, The Heat
He was obviously on the wrong side of crazy.
— Heather Webber, Trouble in Spades
I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one in the room to see this circular motion except him. He saw it and frowned.
— John Swartzwelder, The Time Machine Did It
I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you.You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?
— Thornton Wilder, Our Town
It sounds crazy, to think that I cared so much without ever talking to you.
— Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
Maybe he's up to something, maybe he'ś not really crazy after all. Perhaps he just got fed up acting normal and decided to act crazy instead, and they locked him up because he went too far.
— Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory
The United States is an easy country to love because you can take it on faith that, at some point in every waking hour of the day, there is among your fellow citizens a vast exaltation of opinions that test the outer boundaries of the Crazoid.
— Charles P. Pierce, Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.
— Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
Have you ever been at a point that you don't know what to say? But yet you came up with this crazy idea to type this.
— Eric Mayes
You are really nuts, you know it? One a these days they're gonna come over and just lock you up! You aren't playing with a full deck, Eunice. I think somebody blew your pilot light out. There's more. You know what? You got splinters in the windmill of your mind. You're playin hockey with a warped puck! I think you dine sprung a leak in your dingey....
— Vicki Lawrence
Charlotte wondered if she would have recognized the crazy much earlier if he looked more like Steve Buscemi then Mr. Medieval Hotness.
— Shannon Hale, Midnight in Austenland
She scowled at him until a light appeared in her intelligent eyes, as if she had had an epiphany. "Are you an illegal alien?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Embrace
Your like Martha Stewart on crack,” my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.
— Debby Bull, Blue Jelly: Love Lost & the Lessons of Canning
You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see...
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
I do not mean to mock or ridicule your life's work, for in one way at least it mimics my own: We have dedicated our lives to the pursuit of phantoms. The difference is the nature of those phantoms. Mine exist between other men's ears; yours live solely between your own.
— Rick Yancey, The Monstrumologist
the only way clear of the cool/crazy flipflop was obviously slow, frustrating and hard work. Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it: keep cool, but care. He might have known, if he'd used any common sense. It didn't come as a revelation, only something he'd as soon not've admitted.
— Thomas Pynchon, V.
I remember my brother as such a gentle and loving child, the best big brother a girl could hope for, but I remember when I started to sense our family's world tilting on its axis, the kaleidoscope turning, when things started to go wrong. From then on, it was like we were still ourselves, but our lives played out as though reflected back to us from a funhouse mirror.
— Jessica Warman, Breathless
She thought she loved him. She was crazy.
— V.S. Carnes
Being crazy lets me do some pretty insane things.
— Anthony T. Hincks
invalidation is crazy-making, and it is also at the root of gaslighting, where victims' feelings are purposely denied or manipulated in order to make them question their sanity.
— Samantha Rodman, How to Talk to Your Kids about Your Divorce: Healthy, Effective Communication Techniques for Your Changing Family
I might be crazy, but at least I'm not insane.
— Anthony T. Hncks
Driving yourself crazy is faster than walking.
— Cody Edward Lee Miller
I've always preferred crazy to stupid. Stupid can break your heart.
— Karin Slaughter, The Good Daughter
Feel the pain. Feel the pleasure. As long as I’m living, I will enjoy every experience that I can. Happiness, glee, passion, peace, fear, pain, I want to feel it all, good or bad. I want to live, not in monotony, in utter craziness. I’m living not dying.
— Avina Celeste
,"I am not crazy, my reality is just different from yours."-Cheshire Cat
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass: With an Excerpt from the Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll
If I, as a child, claim that something awful has happened—that someone has done something terrible to me—and everyone around me acts as if nothing is the matter, then either I must be crazy, or all of them are. And when you’re a kid and your life depends on all these people, there is no choice: of course, I must be crazy.
— E. Sue Blume, Secret Survivors
Craziness is just a varying degree of sanity.
— Anthony T. Hincks
Crazy always feels right, but that doesn't mean it ain't wrong.
— Aundrea Ascencio, Grey
People are damn crazy and insane.(Lie To Me Season 2 episode 1)
— Deyth Banger
None of us ate together: my Aunt Gladys ate at five o’clock, my cousin Susan at five-thirty, me at six, and my uncle at six-thirty. There is nothing to explain this beyond the fact that my aunt is crazy.
— Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
But here's the thing about crazy: It. Wants. Out.
— Anna Kendrick, Scrappy Little Nobody
He was always worrying about me – even when we were kids. If I scraped my knee or fell off my bike, he was the first one to help me up and make sure Mom got a Band-Aid.” “I remember.” I smile. “He was the quintessential big brother.” “He was. But that’s just it – he’s not here to protect me anymore, Anna. And you don’t have to be, either. I know I let stuff get crazy. I didn’t mean to be like that – it just kind of happened. You couldn’t have changed that. I – it was something I had to go through myself.” My throat tightens. “I felt like I let him down,” I say. “All that stuff with smoking and Johan and Jake – I didn’t take care of you. I couldn’t even keep that one simple promise.” “Anna, my brother died. There’s no way you could protect me from that. It’s up to me, now. I let him down. I let me down.
— Sarah Ockler, Twenty Boy Summer
The town isn't big enough for two homicidal maniacs.
— Jeph Loeb, Batman: The Long Halloween
With his mad eyes that cannot seem to look at everything they want to all at once, with the dagger poised in his palm- like sharp teeth or black eyes, he is transforming into something both terrifying and exciting, mysterious and sexy. I reach forward on the sand towards them as though to touch him, my magical boy.
— Annie Fisher, The Greater Picture
Crazy and insane are words used throughout history to describe people and ideas that are simply different.
— David Icke, Children of the Matrix
As a radiation researcher, I am at one with being perceived as crazy!
— Steven Magee
They're saying I'm a crazy because I'm executing a work beyond their imagination.
— Tanmaya Guru
Oh... nice... nice... Ant-Man is a crazy movie.
— Deyth Banger
As soon as you ascend to heaven in spirit, by being more spiritual and honest with yourself, you will notice that hell comes to you at the exact same time, and earth will literally feel like hell. Everyone that can't see it went on the opposite direction, from crazy to crazier. They see butterflies instead of worms and juice instead of blood, and can't smell their own rotting flesh. They went from surviving to becoming zombies. That's why I despite the vast majority of those that consider themselves spiritual. They are in fact lunatics disguised as saints.
— Robin Sacredfire
I'm not crazy
—  I'm curious.
When faced with choosing between attributing their pain to “being crazy” and having had abusive parents, clients will choose “crazy” most of the time. Dora, a 38-year-old, was profoundly abused by multiple family perpetrators and has grappled with cutting and eating disordered behaviors for most of her life. She poignantly echoed this dilemma in her the
— Lisa Ferentz, Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician's Guide
Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone.
— Haidji
Strong could be dealt with—but crazy? Oh no. You never knew what the crazy were going to do.
— Andrea Speed, Infected: Shift
This is what we do. We do crazy shit because we're broken. That's who we are. That's what we do.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde, The Year of My Miraculous Reappearance
Most really crazy people can only take reality in small doses.
— R.A.Delmonico
So bloody massacre, so nasty, so brutal he just starts to eat alive people flesh.
— Deyth Banger
The World is enough brutal don't make it mad and crazy more, so far I think that the adrenaline is on it's own full capacity.
— Deyth Banger
I didn’t believe that God told some guy, however many thousands of years ago, “Hey, build a ginormous boat in this desert over here.” I liked it as a story, though, because it seemed like the kind of thing God ought to say. There were crazy stupid things that needed to get done, or should have gotten done, or turned out to be wonderful when they did get done. And maybe, if God ever did tell people what to do, it was to stick up for these crazy stupid things that no one in their right mind would ever do otherwise.
— Emily Horner, A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend
I can't blame them, but I don't join in their sentiments. People can be very crazy when they are unhappy and heart-sore
— Mina Marial Nicoli, The Magic of Avalon Eyrelin
To be lazy is stupid, to be a muscle machine is a crazy thing... and how far we go or father we all the time can find disadvantages and it's own consequences.
— Deyth Banger
I don't know what she's thinking, but I'm thinking how fluid the border is between crazy and interesting, and how hard it is to decide who belongs where.
— Melissa DeCarlo, The Art of Crash Landing
Why is it that the Alpha females are crazy?"Meryn shrugged. "She made sense to me."Colton turned to Meryn. "You also set Aiden's car on fire when he ignored you."Amelia looked at Meryn. "Sounds reasonable."Meryn grinned. "I know, right?
— Alanea Alder, My Savior
I'm seventeen and I'm crazy.
— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
I admit I'm bipolar but if you think I'm stupid you're crazy
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are mentally ill, I want you to instead imagine you are talking to every single person who actually is mentally ill and telling them they are worthless. That's how it makes mentally ill people feel. Doesn't seem very progressive now does it?
— Ariel Howland
Hungry Joe was crazy, and no one knew it better than Yossarian, who did everything he could to help him. Hungry Joe just wouldn’t listen to Yossarian. Hungry Joe just wouldn’t listen because he thought Yossarian was crazy
— Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Isabel's infamous tweets ranged from the cartoonish and impossible:Im going to pull ur tongue out of ur mouth wrap it around ur neck n strangle u w it so hard ur eyes will pop out. i will pee in the sockets.To the quaint:Get ur fcking hands off him bitch i will cut u. #RupertLIsMineTo the cryptically disturbing:I watch u in your sleep.I would never condone Isabel's scary tweets, but you had to give the girl credit for managing to stay under 140 characters every time.
— Goldy Moldavsky, Kill the Boy Band
If somebody'd of come in and took a look, men watching a blank TV, a fifty-year old woman hollering and squealing at the back of their heads about discipline and order and recriminations, they'd of thought the whole bunch was crazy as loons.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Do you know why they call this place the Rookery?" Elodin asked. I shook my head."Because it's where you go if you're a-ravin'." He smiled a wild smile. He laughed a terrible laugh.
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
My father never was a famous guy, he was just a person which made a lot of mistakes. But the suicide wasn't the best path, the best choice it was a way which could be skipped by using something else, by doing something else.But the question is why did he do it?To make mad and crazy the daughter of his ladylove??
— Deyth Banger
He narrowed his eyes at me, pushed out of the booth and stomped over to the cash desk where Ash had returned and was playing a game on his mobile 
— K.C. Dyer
You are crazy how?? Just delete everything around you, starting from friends, bus, objects and everything delete everything leave space and delete our planet what do you see?? Yourself, there and laughing like an crazy mental guy! - So I proved that you are crazy
— Deyth Banger
Sometimes I get such paranoia that I refresh and wait and wait in the same page until I get answer???Why??I'm not a crazy,...
— Deyth Banger
Writing is like talking to yourself, just in a way that makes it look like you're not crazy!
— Mary Kate
Don't open the door to strangers," said her dad. "Unless they're selling something. Then open the door and see if I'd like it. If I'd like it, buy it for me. But nothing cheap. I have standards. Nothing too expensive, either. My standards aren't that high.
— Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light
You love someone. You don’t leave her to drown. And you don’t tell her she’s crazier than she already knows that she is!
— Caitlín R. Kiernan, The Drowning Girl
If you can't beat em. Become as crazy as a fuckin' loon and enjoy the ride.
— Mark Tufo, An Old Beginning
I was much crazier than I had imagined. Or maybe it was a bad idea to read DSM-IV when you're not a trained professional. Or maybe the American Psychiatric Association had a crazy desire to label all life a mental disorder.
— Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
Very gently Jacques lowered her feet to the ground, retaining possession of her waist to help her trembling legs hold her up. Shea raised a hand to push back her rain-slick hair. He caught her fingers and raised her palm to his mouth. “You are the most beautiful sight I have ever seen.” She smiled, shook her head at him. “You’re crazy, you know that? This is one of the most magnificent lightning storms I’ve ever seen, and I didn’t even notice until now.” He grinned at her suggestively, rubbed the bridge of his nose. “Says something.” “Exactly,” she agreed. “You’re crazy, and I must be, too.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Desire
Try to look less conspicuous,” he instructed. A dog barked, rushed to the end of its lead, and bared its teeth. Gregori turned his head and hissed, exposing white fangs. The dog stopped its aggression instantly, yelped in alarm, and retreated whining. “What are you doing?” Savannah demanded, outraged. “Getting a feel for the place,” he said absently, his mind clearly on other matters, his senses tuned to the world around him. “Everyone is crazy here, Savannah. You are going to fit right in.” He ruffled her hair affectionately.
— Christine Feehan, Dark Magic
Anyway, Arianna and I left the castle very late one evening. I knew the knight on guard at the drawbridge so I hit hit him over the head because I didn't want to hurt him.Garion blinked."I knew he'd be honor-bound to try to stop us," Lelldorin explained. "I didn't want to have to kill him, so I hit him over the head.""I suppose that makes sense," Garion said dubiously."Arianna's almost positive he won't die.""DIE?""I hit him just a little too hard, I think.
— David Eddings
When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!''I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.''The reason of that is,' she said eagerly, 'that he goes in privately by the old tower door, just when the service commences, and sits at the back of the gallery. He told me so.'This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock. It was not only received with utter incredulity as regarded itself, but threw doubt on all the assurances that had preceded it.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
She remembered something she overheard at a dinner party -- Everyone loses their mind at least once in this lifetime. Everyone.
— Lawren Leo, Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
The first time I was told that I had a brain injury, I immediately thought to myself, "I'm not crazy.
— Amy Rankin, Nobody Thought I Could Do It, But I Showed Them, and So Can You!
[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.
— Cassie Beasley, Circus Mirandus
This supreme instance of Troy's goodness fell upon Gabriel's ears like the thirteenth stroke of a crazy clock.
— Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
The difference between your crazy and my crazy is that you don't think you're crazy.
— Steve Maraboli
Greetings, cybernuts! This is I.B. Nosey, your official unofficial reporter!
— I.B. Nosey
All the little birdies had flown out of this man's tree.
— Sue Grafton, H is for Homicide
No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.
— Robert W. Chambers, The Yellow King: The Complete Collection
I'm crazy, boy. I'm a madman. I could eat both of you for dinner and love every bite.
— James Dashner, Thomas’s First Memory of the Flare
I can be a stupid girl inside of a crazy woman at times over you. If I weren’t, you should be worried! We all do stupid shit. I might as well be a fool for someone worth it.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.
— Paul Colaianni, How to Deal with Irrational People: What to do When Common Sense Fails and "Crazy" Behavior Prevails
Even greater than my fear that l was crazy, was my lifelong dread that someone would find out.
— Sarah E. Olson, Becoming One: A Story of Triumph Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
Eh bien, then, you are crazy, or appear crazy or you think you are crazy, and possibly you may be crazy.
— Agatha Christie, Third Girl
How are you doing, son?""If you don't get started, I'll rip out your heart and have it for breakfast."- Michael to Solo
— Gena Showalter, Last Kiss Goodnight
But when you say crazy, that describes very well what the general appearance may be to ordinary, everyday people.
— Agatha Christie
I was told I have obsessive behavioral traits. I looked up everything to do with obsession after that.
— Willow Madison, We Were One Once
I came away with the impression that this guy was either the most forward-thinking finance expert on the planet, or a crack smoker who simply placed his hands on the keyboard, attached electric stimuli to his genitalia, flipped the switch, and started typing.
— Robert T. Kiyosaki
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
— Niels Bohr
She may be crazy but at least she isn't you.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Which college?''Hmm?''Which college do you go to?'Fletcher nodded. 'Yes.''I'm sorry?''Oh,' Fletcher said, and laughed.Valkyrie's parents looked at Fletcher in near bewilderment. Fletcher looked back at them in total bewilderment. Valkyrie shook her head.
— Derek Landy, Mortal Coil
When you feel like you're crazy because you think differently than the people around you, God sends a confirmation that you've not lost it.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.
— Paul Zindel, The Pigman
All right, baby," Daphne crooned."Talk to Mama and tell me all your secrets. . . .
— Jennifer Estep, Touch of Frost
I wished for death," he whispered, and the words took the smile from both our lips.His gaze met mine again, this time it was earnest and beseeching. "I knew I could not leave you behind, so I planned to kill you first. I could not. I sat here with the pistol at your head for a long time. I thought of...how much you loved me, that you would make such a request, and...I could not. So I am chained here in this life, with you." He shook his head quickly. "Non, that did not sound as it should. I...will not betray you by leaving you alone, and I cannot take you with me, so I will remain, because I love you.
— W.A. Hoffman, Matelots
People may do crazy things for love, but they will also do amazing things for money.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
It never stops to amaze me how God sends the right people at the right stage of your life as a confirmation to let you know that you're not crazy.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I ate a lot of candy and engaged in light stalking: I prowled Blythe’s Instagram and Twitter, I read her reviews, considered photos of her baked goods and watched from a distance as she got on her soapbox – at one point bragging she was the only person she knew who used her real name and profession online. As my fascination mounted, and my self-loathing deepened, I reminded myself that there are worse things than rabid bloggers (cancer, for instance) and that people suffer greater degradations than becoming writers. But still, I wanted to respond.
— Kathleen  Hale
...and I know -I just know- you can remind me what it feels like to have someone look at me and love me with wanting me to be something else.
— Amy Reed, Crazy
If a 6 foot tall talking Badger comes to your door with a great deal on health insurance, be certain to ask if it includes in-patient psychiatric care.
— David C. Holley, Write like no one is reading
Some people never go crazy, what truly horrible lives they must live.
— Charles Bukowski
Have to be honest with you Darquesse, I cannot feel that. That must be one of your special abilities, because to me, it looks like you just killed a whole bunch of people for no reason.""Oh," said Darquesse. "That's so sad
— Derek Landy, The Dying of the Light
Quit analyzing me. My crazy needs no definition.
— K.F. Breene, Braving the Elements
Probably you should stay out of my head. It’s not a friendly place.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
He’s like an old clock the won’t tell time but won’t stop neither with the hands bend out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm rusted silent, an old worthless clock that keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Everyone here is insane. I am the insanest of the insane.
— Kiersten White, Mind Games
A world between my fingers.
— Andrew Smith
Cole gets up and then says, “Adam. Five texts. I can read them to you.” He pauses. “Unless they’re personal.” I roll my eyes. “Not that it’s any of your business, but I’m pretty sure he’s desperately in love with my sister.” Cole snorts. “He’s crazy.” “He’d have to be, right?
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
When you are in love, you do all sorts of crazy, impossible things with and for the person you love.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
I have to trust that, or I’ll lose my mind. Well, lose it more.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
Crazy must run in your family,” he says.“You do know Fia!” I blurt, then bite my lip.
— Kiersten White, Perfect Lies
It's no wonder I became a monster, too.
— Andrew Smith
Be a crazy beloved to find your crazy lover.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Ah,' thought the king sadly, shrugging his shoulders, "I see clearly that if one has a crazy wife, one cannot avoid being a fool.'("Queen Fantasque")
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
Not a very pretty world, is it?""Which one?
— Andrew Smith
But Jack doesn'
— Andrew Smith
You’re crazy,” he hisses. “Too true.
— Kiersten White, Mind Games
So this is how the merchant ship won’t follow us,” I mumbled, “They aren’t insane enough to join the party.
— Katherine McIntyre, An Airship Named Desire
I am going to build something big for you.
— Andrew Smith
Day had gotten a little nervous during one session when the doctor asked God how he would handle someone hurting Day now and his lover responded by jerking one side of his leather coat open and pulling his long blade from its sheathe. “Easy, I’d cut their fucking arm off and beat the shit out of them with it,” he’d said. But Day quickly started laughing and told the concerned doctor that his partner was just playing. After popping God hard in his stomach, God agreed and said he was indeed joking. When the doctor went back to writing on her legal pad, God mouthed to him, “No I’m not.
— A.E. Via, Nothing Special
There really is no sense in pretending to be normal. Just be you because the moment you do, weirder things happen. Crazy comes back into fashion and every woman has to go out and find her some.
— Shannon L. Alder
Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful.
— Daniel Wallock
Once I had her clean, I wrapped her in a towel and carried her back to the bed. A small red bloodstain was on the sheets, and again the possessive monster inside me threw back his head and roared his pleasure. I stood there holding her and letting the proof I was the only man to be inside her wash over me.Blythe turned her head, and I felt her stiffen in my arms. “Oh, I can clean that up,” she said, starting to wiggle.I pulled her tighter to my chest. “No. I’m going to dry you off and hold you some more. I like seeing that blood. I did that,” The pleasure in my voice made Blythe smile.
— Abbi Glines, Bad for You
We all act crazy when we fall in love, stupid when we miss them, and insane when we lose them.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Once everyone thought you were crazy, they ignored you even when you told the truth.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy.
— Sigmund Freud
You're fucking crazy," he finally said, as though just realizing that. Hell, he had been with her how long now? Surely forever. And he was just now seeing that? Poor guy, he was just slow.
— Lora Leigh, Megan's Mark
A career in the arts can make anyone crazy.
— Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.
— Dan Skinner, The Price of Dick
This was exhausting. If she was going to make this kind of emotional investment in someone, he should at least be a proper boyfriend. But for a casual fling? She could drive herself crazy.
— Lauren Weisberger, Chasing Harry Winston
What do you call falling when the world is standing upside down?
— Search
Crazy was better than in love. You could walk away from crazy without regrets.
— Starr Ambrose, Lie to Me
We are never short of craziness
— Kiyale Olden
You must be crazy, after all, if a bird loves you.
— Andrew  Smith, Grasshopper Jungle
You aren’t crazy,’ he says. ‘What?’ ‘I’ve known you all your life, and you’ve always tried to hide the parts of yourself that you think are wrong. But nothing is wrong with you.’ Those may be the best words he’s ever said to me.
— Lauren DeStefano, Perfect Ruin
There is nothing more reassuring than knowing that the world is crazier than you are.
— Dr. Erik Selvig Thor The Dark World
I'd always thought that in another world, in another time, if he hadn't been so crazy abusive, Tristan and I could have been a beautiful thing. Our connection could have been the work of art that every other relationship fell short against. I could feel it now in the way he held my hand. I could feel it in the way my heart stirred when I heard his voice.
— A. Violet End, The Billionaire Who Atoned to Me
I've said that he and I had been crazyfor each other. But maybe my ex and I were notcrazy for each other. Maybe wewere sane for each other, as if our desirewas almost not even personal -it was personal, but that hardly mattered, since thereseemed to be no other womanor man in the world.
— Sharon Olds, Stag's Leap: Poems
She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.
— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
I suppose if you take one part asshole and mix one part drugs, then stir in too much money for a man’s own good, this is the kind of crazy gravy you end up with.
— A. Violet End, The Billionaire Who Atoned to Me
When you're out in the wilderness and get back to base camp only to discover sleeping bag turndown service….that's no chocolate on the pillow
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
If the universe was scientific and just left to itself, then we’d have statistical probabilities to rely on. But once people are involved it sometimes becomes much more problematic because they’re erratic. People do crazy things that don’t make sense.
— Sara Sheridan, Brighton Belle
Come Hell or High Water" usually depends on the kind of plug you use in the bath tub
— Josh Stern, And That’s Why I’m Single
If you know how to open doors with just a smile, you must need your teeth capped every six months
— Josh Stern
There are two characters in me: a doodler and a tuner. And the only thing that makes me go crazy is when they both fight for their turn.
— Shawn Lukas