Best Susanna Kaysen Sayings
- I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. Girl Interrupted
- In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our… All
- I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it, even I had trouble… Condition
- Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. Across
- In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend… Action
- But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps… Been
- It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace. Able
- When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to… Asleep
- Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and… Famous
- Emptiness and boredom: what an understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair, and depression. Isn't there some other way to look at this?… All
- Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the… All
- All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. All
- There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same. Feel
- As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. Demanded
- Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind. Back Maybe
- For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and… All
- The floor of ice cream parlor bothered me. It was black-and-white checkboard tile, bigger than supermarket checkboard. If I looked only at a white square,… All
- Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. Boredom
- The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore. Anymore
- You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer. Cold
- Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. Abruptly
- Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast... Viscosity and Velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of… Basic