Best Girl Interrupted Quotes

Girl Interrupted Quotes

#1. Everything that is easily accessible loses its value. Hidden things have the highest price. – Author: Sunday Adelaja

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#2. I’d heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn’t know they were hateful toward white folks too. – Author: Clare Vanderpool

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#3. Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60’s. Or maybe I was just a girl … interrupted. – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#4. Are you crazy? It’s a common phrase, I know. But it means something particular to me: the tunnels, the security screens, the plastic forks, the shimmering, ever-shifting borderline that like all boundaries beckons and asks to be crossed. I do not want to cross it again. – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#5. This is eminently true of many happy moments in life. Freed from the demands of decision and intention, adrift on some inner sea, we observe our various movements as if they belonged to someone else, and yet we admire their involuntary excellence. – Author: Muriel Barbery

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#6. Have you had dealings with demons,little girl?Walked with Warlocks, talked with the Night Children? Have you-” “My name is not ‘little girl,'” Clary interrupted. – Author: Cassadra Clare

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#7. I tried, Tess. I really did. I did everything you asked of me. I did everything a man in love would do for his woman. But you don’t want me and my beast no longer wants to hurt you. Whatever we had … it’s lost. – Author: Pepper Winters

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#8. You don’t know many friends you have till you buy a big-ass house on the beach. – Author: Lois Greiman

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#9. ‘Girl, Interrupted’ is one of my favorite movies. – Author: Halston Sage

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#10. My introduction of Whitney was that if there’s going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston. – Author: Clive Davis

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#11. Being crasy doesn’t mean to be broken … It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#12. He interrupted. “No, Lisa, other families do not have sons who are Girl Scouts. I’m teaching that boy to fight,” Jason muttered to himself, “A gay, black Girl Scout. What the hell happened to this family? We were normal back in San Francisco. – Author: Jennifer Coburn

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#13. Although too much time has gone by to miss her, I feel regret that I didn’t maintain our friendship. Even if we no longer have much in common, we would have always had the past, which, in some ways, is just as important as the present or future. – Author: Emily Giffin

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#14. The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#15. Many diets and fitness plans use guilt as a motivation, but that never works in the long run. – Author: Rick Warren

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#16. My family had a lot of characteristics – achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations – that all seemed to be recessive in me. – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#17. A journey to try is not worthy to start, better to love none than starting over in relationships and getting dropped like a coin that won’t get tossed. – Author: Auliq Ice

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#18. This behavior may … counteract feelings of’numbness’and depersonalization that aries duriing periods of extreme stress.-153 Girl,Interrupted – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#19. I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent. – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#20. Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They’ll both drive you crazy but if I’m going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it. – Author: Glenn Frey

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#21. You wouldn’t have taken Rose to such a place, would you?”
“Of course not, but she is a little girl, and I’m-”
“My life”, he interrupted quietly. “You’re my entire life. If anything ever happens to you, Holly, there is nothing left for me. – Author: Lisa Kleypas

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#22. Arithmetic arithmetock
Turn the hands back on the clock
How does the ocean rock the boat?
How did the razor find my throat?
The only strings that hold me here
Are tangled up around the pier. – Author: Tom Waits

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#23. I go to acting class, and in acting class, I’m not the girl that brings in romantic comedies; I’m the girl that wants to do ‘Girl Interrupted’ all the time. – Author: Lindsey McKeon

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#24. Always entertain the possibility that something, no matter how squiggly and scary looking, might just be good. – Author: Anthony Bourdain

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#25. I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#26. Let me tell you something, baby.” he said, his voice going hoarse.
“Last night was the best fucking sex I’ve ever had in my life and it wasn’t even really sex. You know why that was? Because it was with you. – Author: Evangeline Anderson

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#27. Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work… – Author: Albert Einstein

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#28. Maybe I was just flirting with madness the way I flirted with my teachers and my classmates. – Author: Susanna Kaysen

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#29. I wanted to structure a day where a hypothetical random snapshot of me looked like Carrie Bradshaw in her kimono, totally relaxed, not Brittany Murphy in Girl, Interrupted, diddling an old chicken under her bed. The – Author: Jessi Klein

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#30. To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief. – Author: Elisabeth Moss

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Girl Interrupted Quotes

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“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”
Susanna Kaysen

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“Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren’t? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?”
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“Our hospital was famous and housed many great poets and singers. Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers or was it that poets and singers specialized in madness?”
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“Swish, click. Before you knew it, she’d be back. Click, swish, “Checks,” swish, click. It never stopped, even at night; it was our lullaby. It was our metronome, our pulse. It was our lives measured out in doses slightly larger than those famous coffee spoons. Soup spoons, maybe? Dented tin spoons brimming with what should have been sweet but was sour, gone off, gone by without our savoring it: our lives.”
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“Every window on Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.”
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“It’s a fairly accurate portrait of me at eighteen, minus a few quirks like reckless driving and eating binges. It’s accurate but it isn’t profound.”
Susanna Kaysen

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“Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60’s. Or maybe I was just a girl… interrupted.”
Susanna Kaysen

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“People ask, How did you get in there? What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well. I can’t answer the real question. All I can tell them is, it’s easy. And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe. Most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists. And who can resist an opening?”
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“For many of us, the hospital was as much a refuge as it was a prison. Though we were cut off from the world and all the trouble we enjoyed stirring up out there, we were also cut off from the demands and expectations that had driven us crazy. What could be expected of us now that we were stowed away in a loony bin? The hospital shielded us from all sorts of things. We’d tell the staff to refuse phone calls or visits from anyone we didn’t want to talk to, including our parents.”
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“Cynthia was depressive; Polly and Georgina were schizophrenic; I had a character disorder. Sometimes they called it a personality disorder. When I got my diagnosis it didn’t sound serious, but after a while it sounded more ominous than other people’s. I imagined my character as a plate or shirt that had been manufactured incorrectly and was therefore useless.”
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“Freedom was the price of privacy.”
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“Hey man, it passes the time.”
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“Now I was safe, now I was really crazy, and nobody could take me out of there.”
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“Therapists had nothing to do with our everyday lives. ‘Don’t talk about the hospital,’ my therapist said if I complained about Daisy or a stupid nurse. ‘We’re not here to talk about the hospital.’ They couldn’t grant or rescind privileges, help us get rid of smelly roommates, stop aides from pestering us. The only power they had was the power to dope us up. Thorazine, Stelazine, Mellaril, Librium, Valium, the therapists’ friends. Once we were on it, it was hard to get off. A bit like heroin, except it was the staff who got addicted to our taking it. ‘You’re doing so well,’ they would say. That was because those things knocked the heart out of us.”
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“It’s a mean world…there’s nobody to take care of you out there.”
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“He started asking me, ‘What are you thinking?’ I never knew what to say. My head was empty and I liked it that way. Then he began to tell me what I might be thinking. ‘You seem sad today,’ he’d say, or ‘Today, you seem puzzled about something.’ Of course I was sad and puzzled. I was eighteen, it was spring, and I was behind bars.”
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“In the world’s terms, though, all of us were tainted.”
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“When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep. When I was supposed to sleep, I was silent. When a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it.”
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“But I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can’t. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”
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“Crazy isn’t being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It’s you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”
Susanna Kaysen

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“We had a lot of hairy legs in our ward. Early feminists.”

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