And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in … - Susanna Kaysen

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I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.

Susanna Kaysen

And in the end, I lost him. I did it on purpose, the way Garance lost Baptiste in the crowd. I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.

Baptiste, Crowd, Crowds, Felt, Purpose, Way

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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 and fixed on canvas: one moment made to stand still and to stand for all the other moments, whatever they would be or might have been. What life can recover from that?

Girl, Moment, Read, Time, Titles, Would Be

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.

Beckons, Crazy, Mean, Phrase, Plastic, Tunnels

Tell me that you don’t take that blade and drag it across your skin and pray for the courage to press down.

Courage, Girl Interrupted, Pray, Praying, Skins, Tell

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

Cry, Dancing, Goat, Goats, Want

Freedom was the price of privacy.

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