Quotes by : Susanna Kaysen

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret.....

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Kaysen elaborates through parts of the book on her thoughts about how mental illness is treated. She....

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

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:....

Nothing," I said. "It's quiet. It's like― I don't know. It's like falling off a cliff." I laughed.....

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

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.

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