Best Girl Interrupted Quotes

#1. My family had a lot of characteristics - achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations - that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Susanna Kaysen

#2. I wanted to structure a day where a hypothetical random snapshot of me looked like Carrie Bradshaw in her kimono, totally relaxed, not Brittany Murphy in Girl, Interrupted, diddling an old chicken under her bed. The

Jessi Klein

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

Susanna Kaysen

#4. I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

#5. I go to acting class, and in acting class, I'm not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I'm the girl that wants to do 'Girl Interrupted' all the time.

Lindsey McKeon

#6. You wouldn't have taken Rose to such a place, would you?"
"Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I'm-"
"My life", he interrupted quietly. "You're my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me.

Lisa Kleypas

#7. I told her once I wasn't good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.

Susanna Kaysen

#8. This behavior may ... counteract feelings of'numbness'and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

#9. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

#10. He interrupted. "No, Lisa, other families do not have sons who are Girl Scouts. I'm teaching that boy to fight," Jason muttered to himself, "A gay, black Girl Scout. What the hell happened to this family? We were normal back in San Francisco.

Jennifer Coburn

#11. Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken ... It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen

#12. 'Girl, Interrupted' is one of my favorite movies.

Halston Sage

#13. Have you had dealings with demons,little girl?Walked with Warlocks, talked with the Night Children? Have you-" "My name is not 'little girl,'" Clary interrupted.

Cassadra Clare

#14. Are you crazy? It's a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again.

Susanna Kaysen

#15. 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