"If you can't trust your mind, trust your heart."
Words on Bathroom Walls - Movie Quotes
Memorable Quotes
When you're a cancer kid, people are so eager to grant any wish you have. But when you have schizophrenia, people treat you differently.
— Adam Petrazelli
Context:
Adam explaining to Maya why he kept his diagnosis a secret.
Meaning:
Highlighting the hierarchy of empathy in society regarding physical vs. mental illness.
It’s a very strange reality when you can’t trust yourself. The faith I might have had in normal things like gravity or logic or love is gone.
— Adam Petrazelli
Context:
Voiceover narration describing the experience of a psychotic break.
Meaning:
Expresses the profound disorientation of psychosis, where the fundamental laws of the universe feel unstable.
I'm sorry I'm crazy.
— Adam Petrazelli
Context:
Adam to Maya after a hallucination episode.
Meaning:
A heartbreaking moment of internalized stigma, where Adam apologizes for his existence.
Church is for people who believe in things they can't see. Life for me is about seeing things I probably shouldn't believe in.
— Adam Petrazelli
Context:
Adam speaking to Father Patrick in the confessional.
Meaning:
A darkly humorous comparison between faith and hallucination.