If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen Career 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
A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. — Susanna Kaysen Demand 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
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
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
“Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots.” — Susanna Kaysen Girl Copy Share Image
“One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but i took it as a… — Susanna Kaysen Nihilist Copy Share Image
Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or… — Susanna Kaysen Blue 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
“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
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
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
Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed… — Susanna Kaysen Broken Copy Share Image
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the… — Susanna Kaysen Day to day 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 Books 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
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
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
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
“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 Life Copy Share Image
Don't separate the mind from the body. Don't separate even character - you can't. Our unit of existence is a body, a… — Susanna Kaysen Body 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 Anger Copy Share Image
The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people kill themselves simply… — Susanna Kaysen Bus 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 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
“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
“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
“Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It… — Susanna Kaysen Adaptation Copy Share Image
“It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of contrariety. My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense… — Susanna Kaysen Ambition 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
