In a strange way we were free. We'd reached the end of the line. We had nothing more to lose. Our privacy, our liberty, our dignity: all of this was gone and we were stripped down to the bare bones of our selves Susanna Kaysen More Quotes by Susanna Kaysen More Quotes From Susanna Kaysen Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act? Susanna Kaysen acting matter insanity I don't have a whole bunch of literary connections. I don't write reviews or attend writer's conferences. I'm kind of shy and don't want to go to a party. I just want to stay home and read my murder mysteries and try to write and cook dinner. Susanna Kaysen dinner shy party home My father was judgmental and kind of mean, and I'm like that. And he was very perfectionistic, and I'm like that. And he was very hard on himself, and I'm like that. Susanna Kaysen like hard mean father