If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen Career Copy Share Image
“One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about… — Susanna Kaysen Health Copy Share Image
I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. — Susanna Kaysen Girl interrupted Copy Share Image
“She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .” — Susanna Kaysen Darkness Copy Share Image
“How the fuck else am I going to get any attention in this place?" Lisa always called the hospital 'this place.” — Susanna Kaysen Hospital Copy Share Image
I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses — Susanna Kaysen Claims Copy Share Image
Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen Amplified Copy Share Image
There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. — Susanna Kaysen Feels 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 Boredom Copy Share Image
“This was what was wonderful, standing alone in the big, soft night rewriting the past to make myself miss what had never… — Susanna Kaysen Past Copy Share Image
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing… — Susanna Kaysen Driven Copy Share Image
“Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around… — Susanna Kaysen Future Copy Share Image
The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only… — Susanna Kaysen Girl 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,… — Susanna Kaysen Crazy Copy Share Image
This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen Aries Copy Share Image
Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds... — Susanna Kaysen Believe Copy Share Image
You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to… — Susanna Kaysen Cake Copy Share Image
And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be… — Susanna Kaysen Accepted Copy Share Image
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest… — Susanna Kaysen Action Copy Share Image
Which is worse, overload or underload? Luckily, I never had to choose. One or Pass on to where? Back into my cells… — Susanna Kaysen Cells Copy Share Image
Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to… — Susanna Kaysen Angst Copy Share Image
Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it.… — Susanna Kaysen Demand Copy Share Image
“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes… — Susanna Kaysen Fascination Copy Share Image
“I got better and Daisy didn't and I can't explain why. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted… — Susanna Kaysen Sanity Copy Share Image
“I walked past the lady in yellow robes and the maid bringing her a letter, past the soldier with a magnificent hat… — Susanna Kaysen Brown eyes Copy Share Image
“Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true.… — Susanna Kaysen Say Crazy 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… — Susanna Kaysen Empathy Copy Share Image
“Why did she do it? Nobody dared to ask. Because - what courage! Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin,… — Susanna Kaysen Courage Copy Share Image
“The disorder is more common in women." Note the construction of that sentence. They did not write, "The disorder is more common… — Susanna Kaysen Promiscuity Copy Share Image
“Viscosity occurs on a cellular level. And so does velocity.In contrast to viscosity's cellular coma, velocity endows every platelet and muscle fiber… — Susanna Kaysen Girl interrupted Copy Share Image
“Who had the courage to burn herself? Twenty aspirin, a little slit alongside the veins of the arm, maybe even a bad… — Susanna Kaysen Courage Copy Share Image
“The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of… — Susanna Kaysen Communication Copy Share Image
