26 Quotes by 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.

But sometimes all the stars in the entire universe conspire to make something good happen.

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, how hard you hope.

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.

Sometimes I worry people might be able to place thoughts in my head, or take my thoughts away.

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.

If I look closely I can see we have the same colour eyes, not me and Simon, but me and the boy who is also me, the boy who I can no longer recognise, with whom I no longer share a single thought, worry, or hope.

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.

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