“Eccentricty had flowered into madness.”

— Laurie R. King, book The Beekeeper's Apprentice

Source: The Beekeeper's Apprentice

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American novelist 1952

Hubert Selby Jr. book The Room

The Room (1971)

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”

Iris Murdoch book A Fairly Honourable Defeat

A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

“A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

Une jeune fille est comme une fleur qu'on a cueillie; mais la femme coupable est une fleur sur laquelle on a marché. <br class="br"> Honorine http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Honorine (1845), translated by Clara Bell

“The juniper-scented liquor had volatilized his thoughts; he should be thinking that madness caused this man to call himself a king, but was thinking rather that kingship had driven this man mad.”

Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, City of Illusions (1967), Chapter 5

“Proud of my near-madness, as if I had attained a goal.”

Peter Handke (1942) Austrian writer, playwright and film director

Source: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 16

“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Oh, the universe had outdone herself. The universe would be send flowers.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Variant: The universe could be a wondrous thing. The universe had out did herself. The universe would be getting flowers.
Source: The Runaway Queen

“And suddenly I had an inkling of what it must feel like to be mad.”

Aldous Huxley book The Doors of Perception

The Doors of Perception (1954)

“I hied me off to Arcady—
The month it was the month of May,
And all along the pleasant way,
The morning birds were mad with glee,
And all the flowers sprang up to see,
As I went on to Arcady.”

Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) American poet, story-writer and critic

The Secret of Arcady. Compare Henry Cuyler Bunner, The Way to Arcady.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Eccentricty had flowered into madness.”

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