Nathan Filer Quotes

It's hard to know what to say sometimes, when someone does something so nice. It's hard to know where to look.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Inside my head is a jigsaw made of trillions and trillions and trillions of atoms. It might take a while.

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 attention, holding it so tightly that your good leg or your good thumb seem to cease to exist.

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.