Susanna Kaysen Quotes About Nurses

Quotes about: Nurses

• You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Glasses, Doors, Cake

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.46, Vintage

• By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Expression, Nurse

• Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Nurse, Abuse

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.96, Vintage

• I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Nurse, Six

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.51, Vintage

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