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title: "3 Cream Quotes By Susanna Kaysen"
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> [By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/by-the-time-we-hit-the-streets-they-were-silent-and-closed-in-on-us/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b7/susanna-kaysen-3041_cream_by-the-time-we-hit-the-streets-they-were_2292760.png)

> [I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/i-am-not-a-nurse-escorting-six-lunatics-to-the-ice-cream-parlor/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f64/susanna-kaysen-3041_cream_i-am-not-a-nurse-escorting-six-lunatics_2653237.png)

> [The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/the-floor-of-ice-cream-parlor-bothered-me-it-was-black-and-white/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/533/susanna-kaysen-3041_bigger_the-floor-of-ice-cream-parlor-bothered-m_3231360.jpg)

## Other authors on Cream

## More by Susanna Kaysen

> [I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/i-had-an-inspiration-once-i-woke-up-one-morning-and-i-knew-that-it/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/i-don-t-have-a-whole-bunch-of-literary-connections-i-don-t-write/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/light-like-this-does-not-exist-but-we-wish-it-did-we-wish-the-sun/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/if-i-could-have-any-job-in-the-world-i-d-be-a-professional-cinderella/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/lunatics-are-similar-to-designated-hitters-often-an-entire-family-is/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/it-s-one-of-the-reasons-i-became-a-writer-to-be-able-to-smoke-in-peace/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/it-s-a-fairly-accurate-portrait-of-me-at-eighteen-minus-a-few-quirks/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/for-many-of-us-the-hospital-was-as-much-a-refuge-as-it-was-a-prison/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [Freedom was the price of privacy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/freedom-was-the-price-of-privacy/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/people-ask-how-did-you-get-in-there-what-they-really-want-to-know-is/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/it-was-my-misfortune-or-salvation-to-be-at-all-times-perfectly/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/scar-tissue-has-no-character-it-s-not-like-skin-it-doesn-t-show-age/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/when-women-are-angry-at-men-they-call-them-heartless-when-men-are/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [ Disease \[is\] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/disease-is-as-one-of-our-languages-doctors-understand-what-disease/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

> [“Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susanna-kaysen/asa-had-a-sharp-understanding-of-the-future-that-is-a-time-when-this/)

[Susanna Kaysen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susanna-kaysen/)

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