“She'll never ride," Eleanor said. She can't even bump the saddle yet.""Perhaps loony people can't ride," Ruth suggested."Ruth," Bee said, with vigour. "The pupils at the Manor are not lunatic. They are not even mentally deficient. They are just 'difficult.'""Ill-adjusted is the technical description," Simon said."Well, they behave like lunatics. If you behave like a lunatic how is anyone to tell that you're not one?”
“There's a name for people with an interest in the moon," Alex said. "They're called lunatics.”
“I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.”
“This is a recurring theme in schools: if you are quiet, well-behaved and fairly bright you will be ignored, whereas if you are a lunatic who shuts up for five minutes you will be handsomely rewarded. #”
“If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.”
“There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly.Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!”