Catherine Lowell

"A debut novel about the last remaining descendant of the Brontees who discovers that her recently deceased father has left her a treasure hunt that may lead to the long-rumored secret literary estate"--

A Novel

The Madwoman Upstairs

Natalie Unsinn 

“The purpose of literature is to teach you how to think, not how to be practical. Learning to discover the connective tissue between seemingly unrelated events is the only way we are equipped to understand patterns in the real world.” 

Elena M.

If you can’t think of anything intelligent to say, don’t say anything at all.

...books don’t have answers because life has no meaning.

Passion. There it was, my least favorite word. It was the elusive—yes, meaningless—term people used when they wanted to believe they were more human than other humans.

Love always came with scars, and this was mine: the knowledge that the friends I knew best were those I had never actually met.

Ergo, authors uniformly assume madness is deep. They’re wrong. Sometimes, insane people aren’t tortured artists. Sometimes, insane people are just insane.

 I scooted closer to my soggy, chattering classmates, aware of the acute loneliness you feel when surrounded by so many other people.

The real problem was this: my father was in the grave, and I could do nothing to write him out of it.

He lived in the past because nothing was at stake there.

You’re determined to honor your pain because you think it defines you.

The Madwoman Upstairs quotes

Join the club