Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted Quotes

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

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.

The world didn't stop because we weren't in it anymore.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.

Freedom was the price of privacy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

She wasn't blotto, she was plotting.