161 Quotes by Susanna Kaysen

Freedom was the price of privacy.

My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.

Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.

I can honestly say that my misery had been transformed into common unhappiness, so by Freud's definition I have achieved mental health.

What does borderline personality mean, anyhow? It appears to be a way station between neurosis and psychosis: a fractured but not disassembled psyche. Though to quote my post-Melvin psychiatrist: "It's what they call people whose lifestyles bother them.

Vittima dell'intolleranza sociale verso comportamenti devianti.

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

Or maybe I was just a girl, interrupted

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