It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen Cadence 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
“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
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. — Susanna Kaysen Career 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
I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses — Susanna Kaysen 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
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
“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
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
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
“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up… — Susanna Kaysen 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
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 Copy Share Image
Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“When digital watches were invented years later they reminded me of five-minute checks. They murdered time in the same way -slowly- chopping… — Susanna Kaysen Clock 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 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
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 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 Copy Share Image
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had… — Susanna Kaysen Artist 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. It… — Susanna Kaysen Adaptation Copy Share Image
“I’ve gone back to the Frick since then to look at her and at the two other Vermeers. Vermeers, after all, are… — Susanna Kaysen Light 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
“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
“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
“Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort… — Susanna Kaysen Doubt 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
