Susanna Kaysen Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. November 11, 1948
Birthday: November 11
It's important to cultivate detachment. One way to do this is to practice imagining yourself dead, or in the process of dying. If there's a window, you must imagine your body falling out of that window. If there's a knife, you must imagine the knife piercing your skin. If there's a train coming, you must imagine your torso flattened under its wheels. These excercises are necessary to achieving the proper distance.
source: "Girl, Interrupted". Book by Susanna Kaysen, 1994.
topic: Distance, Fall, Numbness, Torso, Girl Interrupted, Imagining Yourself
