Ashley Martinez

“Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. There are so many of them: worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, perhaps of the dead as well. These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.”
― Susanna Kaysen

“The question was, What could we do?

Could we get up every morning and take showers and put on clothes and go to work? Could we think straight? Could we not say crazy things when they occurred to us?

Some of us could; some of us couldn't. In the world's terms, though, all of us were tainted.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.”
― Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories