"Girl, Interrupted" Quotes
"Girl, Interrupted" is a memoir by Susanna Kaysen detailing her experiences and reflections during her stay in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s.
nonfiction | 169 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Have you ever confused a dream with life?
Was madness in fact merely a disease like any other?
I told the doctor I was feeling suicidal. He told me I was just being dramatic.
Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified.
Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor; it has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slipcover.
The world didn’t stop because we weren’t in it anymore.
It is easier to behave yourself into a new way of thinking than to think yourself into a new way of behaving.
We say that the truth will make us free. Yes, but that truth is a thousand truths which grow and change.
When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
Suicide is a form of murder—premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to.
