“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 , book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

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