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I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my…

— Susanna Kaysen

I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want…

— Susanna Kaysen

Light like this does not exist, but we wish it did. We wish the sun could make us young and beautiful, we wish our…

— Susanna Kaysen

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

— Susanna Kaysen

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person…

— Susanna Kaysen

It's one of the reasons I became a writer, to be able to smoke in peace.

— Susanna Kaysen

It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't…

— Susanna Kaysen

For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world…

— Susanna Kaysen

Freedom was the price of privacy.

— Susanna Kaysen

“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there…

— Susanna Kaysen

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.

— Susanna Kaysen

Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no…

— Susanna Kaysen