Quotes by : Susanna Kaysen

Freedom was the price of privacy.

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner....

I wasn't convinced I was crazy, though I feared I was. Some people say that having any conscious opinion....

The debate was wearing me out. Once you've posed that question, it won't go away. I think many people....

Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think....

I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the....

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family....

Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged....

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping....