But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasn’t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps I’d managed my peculiar objective of partial suicide. I was lighter, airier than I’d been in years.

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified", Girl, Interrupted

I think many people kill themselves simply to stop the debate about whether they will or they won't.

The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

With wild eyes that had seen freedom.