Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

• Once you are in [a parallel universe] you can easily see the world you came from.
• When you look at a face, you see a blob of rubber because you are worried that your face is a blob of rubber.
• When you're sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.
• We say that Columbus discovered America and Newton discovered gravity, as though America and gravity weren't there until Columbus and Newton got wind of them.
• Everything in the world is just the shadow of some real thing we can't see. And the real thing isn't like the shadow, it's a kind of essence-thing.
• YOU can't call a piece of fruit an apple when you want to eat it and a dandelion when you don't want to eat it. It's the same sort of fruit no matter what your intentions toward it.