Quotes from Susanna Kaysen

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

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

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

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

When women are angry at men, they call them heartless. When men are angry at women, they call them crazy.

Mental illness seems to be a communication problem between interpreters one and two.

My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.