There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. — Susanna Kaysen Feels Copy Share Image
It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the… — Susanna Kaysen Criminals 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
Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? — Susanna Kaysen Acting 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
It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. — Susanna Kaysen Delicate 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 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
“One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but i took it as a… — 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 Angel 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
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
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
“Back then I didn't know that I -- or anyone-- could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as… — Susanna Kaysen Anger Copy Share Image
“The shimmering, ever-shifting borderline, like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed.” — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something… — Susanna Kaysen Done 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
Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. — Susanna Kaysen Classmates 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 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 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
