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“Back then I didn't know that I­­ -- or anyone-- ­­could make a life out of boyfriends and literature. As far as I could see, life demanded skills I didn't have. The result was chronic emptiness and boredom. There were more pernicious results as well: self­loathing, alternating with "inappropriately intense anger with frequent displays of temper...”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted