Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Nothing," I said. "It's quiet. It's like― I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff." I laughed. "I guess my life… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Back then I didn't know that Ior anyonecould make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see,… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Don’t ask me those questions! Don’t ask me what life means or how we know reality or why we have to suffer… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Back then I didn't know that I -- or anyone-- could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
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… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
