Stonehearst Asylum Quotes

Edward Newgate: You're mad!
Silas Lamb: We're all mad Dr. Newgate. Some are simply not mad enough to admit it.

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Edward Newgate: Well to... bring them back to their senses.
Silas Lamb: And make a miserable man out of a perfectly happy horse?

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The Alienist: Believe nothing that you hear. And only one-half of what you see.

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Eliza Graves: You act like I'm some precious thing to be bartered or put on display or possessed.
Edward Newgate: It's not like that with me, Eliza.
Eliza Graves: No? How is it different?
Edward Newgate: It's you who possesses me.

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Silas Lamb: Of all the afflictions I think of none more cruel than madness. It robs a man of his reason, his dignity, his very soul. And it does so, so slowly, without the remorse of death.

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Silas Lamb: Death can not be prevented anymore than madness cured.

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Edward Newgate: We can leave now.
Eliza Graves: But I can't.
Edward Newgate: Can't what?
Eliza Graves: I can't imagine being anywhere, but here... because... yes, you are sane - and I am not.
Edward Newgate: Oh, love: but, I am NOT sane [pregnant pause]
Edward Newgate: I am madly in love with you!
Eliza Graves: Ohh, Edward [Both kiss passionately as asylum burns down in background]

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Silas Lamb: On the contrary: it was my STAFF.
Benjamin Salt: [Incredulously, outraged]Staff? A bunch of inebriates and chronic masturbators?
Silas Lamb: [Slight pause]Funny; I've never seen the harm in chronic masturbation.

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