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Susanna Kaysen

Susanna Kaysen Quotes

Total quotes: 5

Susanna Kaysen

Birthname

AKA: Susanna Kaysen

Birthday: November 11, 1948

Birthplace: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Novelist, Screenwriter, Writer

Total quotes: 5

“Every cigarette still thrills me. The zing, the smell, the trail of vapor beside me, as if I am a tiny airplane. And I am a tiny airplane, going off on a brief trip to bliss.”

— Susanna Kaysen, Bright Leaf

Tagged: smoking, Nicotine, In Praise of Smoking, Cigarettes

“Scar tissue has no character. It’s not like skin. It doesn’t show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It’s like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what’s beneath. That’s why we grow it; we have something to hide.”

— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Tagged: Scar, Anatomy, Symbolism

“A thought is a hard thing to control.”

— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Tagged: Thought, Mind, Thinking

“As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn’t have.”

— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Tagged: Life, skills

“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.”

— Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

Tagged: crazy, Mad, Madness

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