Interrupted Quotes

• Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the cash? Have you ever been blue? Or thought your train moving while sitting still? Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60's. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Dream, Confused

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Every window in Alcatraz has a view of San Francisco.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Cheer Up, Views, San Francisco

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.6, Vintage

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• Guns aren't lawful; nooses give; gas smells awful. So you might as well live.

  Dorothy Parker

  Suicide, Depressing, Gun

  "Resume" l. 5 (1926)

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• If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Jobs, Girl Interrupted, World

  Girl, Interrupted, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl Interrupted, Skins, Praying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. December 8, 1999.

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• Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me, amplified.

  Winona Ryder

  Depression, Crazy, Dark

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• Scar tissue has no character. It's not like skin. It doesn't show age or illness or pallor or tan. It has no pores, no hair, no wrinkles. It's like a slip cover. It shields and disguises what's beneath. That's why we grow it; we have something to hide.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Character, Wrinkles, Hair

  FaceBook post by Susanna Kaysen from Mar 08, 2016

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• I know what it's like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can't. You hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Hurt, Girl Interrupted, Trying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Senior, Time

  Attributed in "Teaching as a Subversive Activity" by Neil Postman and Charles Weingartner, 1971.

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• Acts 10:38 says, “See how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth who went about doing good.” He just got up every day and did good. Everywhere he went, even though he had a purpose and he was headed somewhere, he let himself be interrupted by the needs of people. So often we study the steps of Jesus. Maybe we need to study the stops of Jesus. The things that he stopped for, the things that interrupted his plan, where he would alter his plan and help somebody here and there.

  Joyce Meyer

  Jesus, People, Here And There

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• If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment," Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

  Jim Butcher

  Arms, Judgment, Break

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.3290, Penguin

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• For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor weighed upon me all day. I felt myself a changed girl. A strange melancholy was stealing over me, a melancholy that I would not have interrupted. Dim thoughts of death began to open, and an idea that I was slowly sinking took gentle, and, somehow, not unwelcome possession of me. If it was sad, the tone of mind which this induced was also sweet. Whatever it might be, my soul acquiesced in it.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Girl, Sweet, Morning

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (2013). “Carmilla: A Critical Edition”, p.50, Syracuse University Press

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• This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eye, Glasses, Bending

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.130, Penguin

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• [Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Blood, Should Have

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• A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Please play with me!” 3. Ignore brother, try to do homework. 4. Get interrupted by Jeffrey: “Come ON, Steven! I’m BORED!” 5. Beg Jeffrey for five minutes of peace. 6. Get begged for five minutes of play: “Steven, you never, ever play with me—ever!” 7. Move entire homework operations center to different room. 8. Repeat steps #1-7 as directed by small drugged maniac.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Brother, Moving, Home

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2010). “Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• Yes, I know,' interrupted Puddleglum. 'And few return to the sunlit lands. You needn't say it again. You are a chap of one idea, aren't you?

  C. S. Lewis

  Land, Ideas, Return

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• Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

  Carrie Vaughn

  Misery

  Carrie Vaughn (2010). “Kitty Takes a Holiday”, p.46, Hachette UK

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• I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Morning, Jobs

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• You came back fighting and furious at me. You told me you'd been looking for mermaids, and I interrupted you. [...] I said that next time, you had to take me with you." "Was there a next time?" "Well, you tell me, you don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?

  Jodi Picoult

  Fighting, Water, Mermaid

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.505, Simon and Schuster

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• "Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

  Lewis Carroll

  Dream, Real, Thinking

  "Through the Looking-Glass". Book by Lewis Carroll, ch. 4, 1871.

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• What are you wishing for?' Grace interrupted. 'To kiss you,' I said to her.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Kissing, Grace, Wish

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

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Mean, Broken

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• The girl at her music sits in another sort of light,the fitful,overcast light of lie,by which we see ourselves and others only imprefectly, and seldom..-Girl,Interrupted

  Susanna Kaysen

  Girl, Lying, Light

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• ... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

  Dodie Smith

  Long, Want, Life Is

  Dodie Smith (2003). “I Capture the Castle”, p.119, St. Martin's Press

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