Susanna Kaysen Quotes - Page 4

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• 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.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Expression, Nurse

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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.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Profound, Portraits, Driving

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.150, Vintage

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• 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.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Crazy, Mean, Tunnels

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• Freedom was the price of privacy.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Privacy

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.47, Vintage

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

  Susanna Kaysen

  Jobs, Girl Interrupted, World

  Girl, Interrupted, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Teacher, Flirting, Way

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• 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.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Dream, Confused

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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