Crazy Quotes - Page 38

• I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Cancer, Tired

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• This place aint the same. It never will be. Maybe we've all got a little crazy. I guess if everbody went crazy together nobody would notice, what do you think?

  Cormac McCarthy

  Thinking, Together, Littles

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.695, Pan Macmillan

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• Josh turns to me. “I can’t believe she’s writing these things.” “Not she,” I say. “Me.” “Why would anyone say this stuff about themselves on the Internet? It’s crazy!” “Exactly,” I say. “I’m going to be mentally ill in fifteen years, and that’s why my husband doesn’t want to be around me.

  Jay Asher

  Husband, Believe, Writing

  Jay Asher, Carolyn Mackler (2012). “The Future of Us”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• I never thought there might be one like you out there. Unaware, untrained. Unbelievable. You have no idea what you are, do you?” “Crazy?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Ideas, Might, Like You

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.56, Dell

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• ...but I’m trying to be inconspicuous.” Cinder considered telling him it wasn't working but thought better of it. The lack of a throng of screaming girls surrounding her booth was probably evidence that it was working better than she suspected. Instead of looking like a royal heartthrob, he just looked crazy.

  Marissa Meyer

  Girl, Trying, Royal

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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Eye, Cutting

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

  Cameron Diaz

  Single, Nice, Boys

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• And the council doesn’t recognize any kind of temporary insanity defense. Which was a real shame, because most of the councilmen had considered me crazy for most of my life.

  Rachel Vincent

  Real, Temporary Insanity, Defense

  Rachel Vincent (2009). “Prey”, p.159, MIRA

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• Crazy gets all the knives.

  Mira Grant

  Knives

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• The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Ideas, Forever, Might

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• My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

  Kim Harrison

  Mother, Reality, Harder

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• But Hey, Guess What Crazy means I'm not liable for my actions. So screw it, I'll go home, propped up on Prozac against distractions

  Ellen Hopkins

  Home, Mean, Hey

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.459, Simon and Schuster

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• Samuel! Are you alright?" A vision of Samuel being brained by the falling bars rose up before Simon's eyes. Samuel's voice rose to a scream. "GO AWAY!" Simon looked sideways at Jace. "I think he means it." Jace shook his blond head in exasperation. "You had to make a crazy jail friend, didn't you? You couldn't just count ceiling tiles or tame a pet mouse like normal prisoners do?

  Cassandra Clare

  Fall, Mean, Eye

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• For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back, easy and smiling again. “I left a note for you one time. In the Governor’s fist, you know?” I left a note for you one time. It’s impossible, too crazy to think about, and I hear myself repeating, “You left a note for me?” “I’m pretty sure it said something stupid. Just hi, and a smiley face, and my name. But then you stopped coming.” He shrugs. “It’s probably still there. The note, I mean. Probably just a bit of paper pulp by now.

  Lauren Oliver

  Stupid, Mean, Thinking

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• Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Mean, Eye

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• ... We're werewolves. We don't get to judge 'crazy.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Judging, Werewolf

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty Goes to War”, p.276, Macmillan

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• The heat made people crazy. They woke from their damp bedsheets and went in search of a glass of water, surprised to find that when their vision cleared, they were holding instead the gun they kept hidden in the bookcase.

  Kristin Hannah

  Gun, Glasses, People

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.343, Ballantine Books

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• Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Silly

  Groucho Marx (2009). “Groucho And Me”, p.28, Da Capo Press

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• But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Lying, Long, Who You Are

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• I tell you, my friends,’ he said one day. ‘I tell you that I am the only sane man in the regiment. It’s the others that are mad, but they don’t know it. They fight a war and they don’t know what for. Isn’t that crazy? How can one man kill another and not really know the reason why he does it, except that the other man wears a different colour uniform and speaks a different language? And it’s me they call mad!

  Michael Morpurgo

  War, Fighting, Men

  Michael Morpurgo (2012). “War Horse”, p.80, Scholastic Inc.

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• Your mother is not crazy. Neither, contrary to popular belief, is your brother. He is merely miscast in a play. He would have made the perfect knight in a different century, or a very good pagan prince in a time of heroes. He was born in the wrong era, on the wrong side of the river, with the ability to do anything and finding nothing he wants to do.

  S. E. Hinton

  Mother, Brother, Hero

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• This place is like crazy on crackers.

  Darynda Jones

  Crackers

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.258, Macmillan

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• Dad? Um, listen. I have kind of a crazy story for you.

  Sarah Mlynowski

  Dad, Stories, Kind

  Sarah Mlynowski (2011). “Ten Things We Shouldn't Have Done”, p.285, Hachette UK

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• I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

  Fannie Flagg

  Believe, Thinking, Prove It

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.31, Random House

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• Can you go cazy without knowing you're crazy?

  Laurie Faria Stolarz

  Knowing

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