Accepted Quote by Susanna Kaysen

“And this was the main precondition, that anything might be something else. Once I'd accepted that, it followed that I might be mad, or that someone might think me mad. How could I say for certain that I wasn't, if I couldn't say for certain that a curtain wasn't a mountain range?”

Susanna Kaysen

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Accepted Certain Curtains Ifs Mad Might Mountain Mountain ranges Range Thinking

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