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“We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world.

They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted