“ I said that my mother is mad. I said that. But you might not see it. I mean, you might not think that anything I've told you proves she is mad. But there are different kinds of madness. Some madness d… Nathan Filer
“ We are selfish, my illness and I. We think only of ourselves. We shape the world around us into messages, into secret whispers spoken only for us. Nathan Filer
“ This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it. Nathan Filer
“ It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look. Nathan Filer
“ Hello, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfill. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,… Nathan Filer
“ I guess there's a Use By date when it comes to blaming your parents for how messed up you are.I guess that's what turning eighteen means.Time to own it. Nathan Filer
“ But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen. Nathan Filer
“ I do not have a split mind. I am not different people. I am myself, the same self I have always been, the one person I can never escape. Nathan Filer
“ You only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expect it to be. Nathan Filer
“ HELLO, my name is your potential. But you can call me impossible. I am the missed opportunities. I am the expectations you will never fulfil. I am always taunting you, regardless of how hard you try,… Nathan Filer
“ But that is what these people do - the Steves of this world - they all try and make something out of nothing. and they all do it for themselves. Nathan Filer
“ Some madness doesn't act mad to begin with, sometimes it will knock politely at the door, and when you let it in, it'll simply sit in the corner without a fuss - and grow. Nathan Filer
“ Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while. Nathan Filer
“ Mental illness turns people inwards. That's what I reckon. It keeps up forever trapped by the pain of our own minds, in the same way that the pain of a broken leg or a cut thumb will grab your attenti… Nathan Filer
“ When she turned to see me smiling. It was an awkward smile, but you only really know what a smile means when you own the face behind it. Everyone else just sees the smile they expected it to be. Nathan Filer
“ She's known sadness. That's what it is. I only just thought that as I wrote it. She's known sadness, and it has made her kind. Nathan Filer
