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I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to. — Susanna Kaysen

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse. — Susanna Kaysen

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly. — Susanna Kaysen

Tell me that you don't take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down. — Susanna Kaysen

One of the great pleasures of mental health (whatever that is) is how much less time I have to spend thinking about myself. — Susanna Kaysen

Translation: I need to know the particulars of craziness so I can assure myself that I'm not crazy. — Susanna Kaysen

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy. — Susanna Kaysen

Freedom was the price of privacy. — Susanna Kaysen

Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? — Susanna Kaysen

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

Emptiness and boredom: what a complete understatement. What I felt was complete desolation. Desolation, despair and boredom. — Susanna Kaysen

Thus, our keepers. As for finders - well, we had to be our own finders. — Susanna Kaysen

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. — Susanna Kaysen

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 me, I avoided it. — Susanna Kaysen

With wild eyes that had seen freedom. — Susanna Kaysen

The group had an atomic structure: a nucleus of nuts surrounded by darting, nervous nurse-electrons charged with our protection. — Susanna Kaysen

I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health. — Susanna Kaysen

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco. — Susanna Kaysen

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

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. — Susanna Kaysen

This behavior may ... counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone. — Susanna Kaysen

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken ... It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted — Susanna Kaysen

One of my teachers told me I was a nihilist. He meant it as an insult but I took it as a compliment. — Susanna Kaysen

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore. — Susanna Kaysen

When you're sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound. — Susanna Kaysen

I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. — Susanna Kaysen

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. — Susanna Kaysen

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two. — Susanna Kaysen

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous. — Susanna Kaysen

Reality was getting too dense. — Susanna Kaysen

How the fuck else am I going to get any attention in this place?
Lisa always called the hospital 'this place. — 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 profound. — Susanna Kaysen

That's because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain. — Susanna Kaysen

A thought is a hard thing to control. — Susanna Kaysen

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me. — Susanna Kaysen

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad? — Susanna Kaysen

We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body. — Susanna Kaysen

The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I. — Susanna Kaysen

Imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless. — Susanna Kaysen

Once you start parsing a face, it's a peculiar item: squishy, pointy, with lots of air vents and wet spots. — Susanna Kaysen

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry. — Susanna Kaysen

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

They were all seventeen and miserable, just like me. They didn't have time to wonder why I was a little more miserable than most. — Susanna Kaysen

Now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there. — Susanna Kaysen

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses — Susanna Kaysen

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons that 'animates' us. — Susanna Kaysen

As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. — Susanna Kaysen

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer. — Susanna Kaysen

Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back ... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our mind. — Susanna Kaysen

Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. — Susanna Kaysen

It's a mean world," she'd say. She was usually glad enough to be back. "There's nobody to take care of you out there. — Susanna Kaysen

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of
warm earth. Suicide weather. — Susanna Kaysen

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting. — Susanna Kaysen

She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head . — Susanna Kaysen

I'm Ambivalent. In fact that's my new favorite word.
Do you know what it means ?
I don't care. — Susanna Kaysen

I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. — Susanna Kaysen