"I had an inspiration once. I woke up……" — Susanna Kaysen
"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 task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted"
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72 Quotes by Susanna Kaysen
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- A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state…
- ... now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.
- This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my…
- It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the…
- Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the…
- An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life…
- A thought is a hard thing to control.
- You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to…
- By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the…
- Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.
- It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process…
- Freedom was the price of privacy.
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