hannah •PAN 🩷💛💙🏳️‍🌈• jeffers’s Reviews > Girl, Interrupted > Status Update

‘ “I’m not safe,” I said suddenly.’

‘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.’

the entire chapter.
‘Viscosity flattens the effervescence of panic.’
‘Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture—it’s the great mystery of mental illness.’

maybe a little too easy to follow? follow where?

“When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.”

“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”

why not both 🤷🏼‍♀️

“For a moment, I felt compassion for myself and all the unhappiness I contained.”

🚨TW self harm mention🚨

passage written by the author talking about polly (the girl who had set herself on fire as a child) — ‘We might get out sometime, but she was locked up forever in that body.’ (‘we’ in reference to those who had been institutionalized in a mental hospital with the author, suzanna)

i love the movie and as with a lot of the books, i finally add it to a list of to be read!

i’ve wanted to read this book since i knew about the movie being book based (literally almost every movie is book based 👏🏻)

SO i added it to my ‘52 for 2026’ list and i’m just going through the list at will. 🙂

susanna seems to have a very melancholic type of depression and it feels familiar.