“Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination; velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“The meat was bruised, bleeding, and imprisoned in a tight wrapping. And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“That’s because the analysts are writing about a country they call Mind and the neuroscientists are reporting from a country they call Brain.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
“Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. Often an entire family is crazy, but since an entire family can’t go into the hospital, one person is designated as crazy and goes inside. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling, that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family’s mental health.”
― Girl, Interrupted
― Girl, Interrupted
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