“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Lews Therin, to Rand
The Path of Daggers (20 October 1998)
“I like you because you were mad. And you're pretty. And pretty sane for a mad person.”
Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Jace and Clary, pg. 354
Variant: You disappear so completely into your head sometimes," he said. "I wish I could follow you.
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Samuel Rogers (1763–1855) British poet
To ———, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.”
Diogenes of Sinope (-404–-322 BC) ancient Greek philosopher, one of the founders of the Cynic philosophy
Stobaeus, iii. 3. 51
Quoted by Stobaeus
Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke
Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: When you find yourself locked onto an unpleasant train of thought, heading for the places in your past where the screaming is unbearable, remember there's always madness. Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.
Forever.
“You see the great thing about madness is that it's all in your head.”
Brandon Sanderson book Warbreaker
Lightsong the Bold
Source: Warbreaker (2009)
“I don't need my head examined, but where were you when I married my second husband. Sheesh.”
Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer
Source: Every Fifteen Minutes