Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehe...
All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.
This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music: as my life had been, interrupted in the music of being seventeen, as her life had been, snatched an...
Insanity comes in two basic varieties: slow and fast.
Asa had a sharp understanding of the future--that is, a time when would be past. Time was rushing through and around him, he almost heard it whistling, and this awareness rounded the world somehow an...
Asa’s smell (the fragrance of a beautiful man) is what I miss the most.[…] Like a virus his smell entered me and changed my cells,slowly, over years, until they craved only that smell, which was their...
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 bo...
Back then I didn't know that Ior anyonecould 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....
Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.
But something about the static truth of numbers hurt my brain. Numbers felt sharp. Words felt elastic and springy. Language had an unpredictable, quicksilver quality, saying one thing but meaning some...
The disorder is more common in women. Note the construction of that sentence. They did not write, The disorder is more common in women. It would still be suspect, but they didn't bother trying to cove...
The point is, the brain talks to itself, and by talking to itself changes its perceptions. To make a new version of the not-entirely-false model, imagine the first interpreter as a foreign corresponde...
Now, I would say to myself, you are feeling alienated from people and unlike other people, therefore you are projecting your discomfort onto them. When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber bec...
By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor....
My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.
It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of contrariety. My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be...
Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?
Stavolta lessi il titolo del quadro: Ragazza interrotta mentre suona.Interrotta mentre suona: com’era stata la mia vita, interrotta nella musica dei miei diciassette anni, com’era stata la sua vita, s...
Some people say that having any conscious opinion on the matter is a mark of sanity, but I'm not sure that's true. I still think about it. I'll always have to think about it. I often ask myself if I'm...
She rushed out, because the darkness in the theater was too much when combined with the darkness in her head .
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