I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It… — Susanna Kaysen Fifty 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… — Susanna Kaysen Attend 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… — Susanna Kaysen Beautiful Copy Share Image
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen Career 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
It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. — Susanna Kaysen Able 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… — Susanna Kaysen Accurate 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… — Susanna Kaysen 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
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen All time 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… — Susanna Kaysen Age Copy Share Image
When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy. — Susanna Kaysen Angry Copy Share Image
Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with… — Susanna Kaysen Disease 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 Learning Copy Share Image
We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got… — Susanna Kaysen America Copy Share Image
And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed… — Susanna Kaysen Crowds Copy Share Image
Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it… — Susanna Kaysen Great poet Copy Share Image
Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. — Susanna Kaysen Blades 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
“Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it; even… — Susanna Kaysen Pain Copy Share Image
“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?” — Susanna Kaysen Poetry Copy Share Image
I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. — Susanna Kaysen Debate Copy Share Image
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