Susanna Kaysen Quotes

Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

Asa had a sharp understanding of the future-that is, a time when this would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he almost heard it whistling, and this awareness rounded the world somehow and made it sweet.

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

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.

Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can't go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

Was I ever crazy? Maybe. Or maybe life is… 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. They were not perfect, but they were my friends.

All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.