Top 25 Quotes by Susanna Kaysen of 82 - Page 4

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas:

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

Susanna Kaysen

Girl, Titles, Would Be

Girl, Interrupted (1993)

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Susanna Kaysen

Purpose, Crowds, Way

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

Susanna Kaysen

Dancing, Goats, Want

Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.162, Vintage

Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

Susanna Kaysen

Nurse, Abuse

Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.96, Vintage

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.