It is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it. - Susanna Kaysen
I would if somebody would want to but of course nobody would want to so I wouldn't want to force anybody to want to. - Susanna Kaysen
Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life within the confines of normal? Had I stopped arguing with my personality and learned to straddle the line between sane and insane? - Susanna Kaysen
If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella. - Susanna Kaysen
I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't. - Susanna Kaysen