Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

Susanna Kaysen

Categorized in : Kind Cutting Happy Endings

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer. by Susanna Kaysen

You have to have a somewhat cold heart to be a writer.

cold-heart cold heart

Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast. I'm not talking about onset or duration. I mean the quality of the insanity, the day-to-day business of being nuts.

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It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather.

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If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinder... by Susanna Kaysen

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

girl-interrupted jobs world

By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

ice-cream expression nurse

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and... by Susanna Kaysen

I'm your mind", it claims. "You can't parse ME into dendrites and synapses

synapses claims mind

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry. by Susanna Kaysen

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

goats dancing want

Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

crazy tunnels mean

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No. by Susanna Kaysen

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

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Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplifie... by Susanna Kaysen

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted

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What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their ma... by Susanna Kaysen

What is it about meter and cadence and rhythm that makes their makers mad?

cadence mad makers

Maybe, there's a moment growing up when something peels back... Maybe, maybe, we look for secrets because we can't believe our minds...

girl-interrupted growing-up believe

Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.

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Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse. by Susanna Kaysen

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

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A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

self-harm suicidal suicide

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

titles girl would-be

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted

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This behavior may...counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

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The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

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It's a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It's accurate but it isn't profound.

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