Susanna Kaysen - Family Quotes

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Lunatics are similar to designated hitters. 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.

Susanna Kaysen

Later that day, when Alice was off having a Rorschach, I asked, How can a person who's never eaten honey have a family that can afford to send her here? Probably really incredibly crazy and interesting, so they let her in for less, said Georgina.

Susanna Kaysen

My family had a lot of characteristics—achievements, ambitions, talents, expectations—that all seemed to be recessive in me.

Susanna Kaysen

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. Then, depending on how the rest of the family is feeling, that person is kept inside or snatched out, to prove something about the family's mental health.

Susanna Kaysen