Late Saturday night/early Sunday morning, my roommates came home at 4am from the bar. Normally, i’d have been out with them, but i was at the Panic! concert in Grand Rapids. Also, i was fuckin’ exhausted from getting up at 5am on Friday for work, then having to get up early to leave early for the line at the Intersection — since it was general admission. If i had actually spoke my mind when they woke me up, after i’d only been asleep for 2 hours…

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“Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.”

—Susanna Kayson

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

—Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.” ”

—Susanna Kayson. Girl, Interrupted
  • Doctor: You took a bottle of aspirin and chased it with a bottle of vodka.
  • Susanna: I had a headache.
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