Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified.Susanna Kaysen
When you're sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.Susanna Kaysen
Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.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 as well.Susanna Kaysen
Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?Susanna Kaysen
Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it.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 is designated as crazy and goes inside.Susanna Kaysen
Reality is always the dowdy sister to Fancy.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
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 hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath.Susanna Kaysen
Time… is not a line but a dimension. You dwell in your past, in your future, continually in your present.Susanna Kaysen
I was trying to explain my situation to myself. My situation was that I was in pain and nobody knew it.Susanna Kaysen
If you're a teenager and you're fucked-up, you're dramatic. If you're in your twenties, you're sensitive. If you’re in your thirties, you're 'distraught.'Susanna Kaysen