GIRL, INTERRUPTED (1999): STARTERS
a collection of quotes, phrases, and sayings from the 1999 film adaptation of the Susanna Kaysen memoir, Girl, Interrupted. change & alter as needed.
"Have you ever confused a dream with life?"
"Don't tell me what you think. Take it to the lab."
"Sometimes, it's hard for me to stay in one place."
"Time can move backwards and forwards, and now to then, and back again, and you can't control it."
"I think young women should make up their own mind, don't you?"
"You need to go somewhere where you can get a genuine rest."
"You're hurting everyone around you."
"I didn't try to kill myself."
"That's the kind of thing you talk about in therapy, honey. Not here."
"Look, I'm not gonna burn my bra, or drop acid, or go march on Washington. I just don't want to end up like my mother."
"I need you to stay close to me, because it's easy to get lost in here."
"I won't be here that long. I'm just here for a rest."
"You've been gone for two weeks. A lot of shit has gone down."
"I mean, everybody thinks about it at some point."
"I think you should lock the door."
"Fuck his brains out. Use a rubber."
"You've been feeling bad in general, right? You've been feeling depressed."
"I haven't exactly been a ball of joy, [name]."
"He didn't say. He thought it would 'affect my recovery'."
"I must have missed that in the brochure."
"I mean, what kind of sex isn't casual?"
"You know, I know all about you. And I hope they put you away forever."
"What if I had a punctured artery? You'd go on your rounds, ignoring my wounds?"
"I tried to kill myself, [name]."
"What do they know about being normal?"
"Look, I know that this sounds crazy, but I think I love you."
"I want to leave... but not with you. Not with you."
"I just like you, that's all. I wish you were getting better, though."
"If talking did shit, we'd be out of here by now."
"Another one of my theories is that you people don't know what you're doing."
"It means I don't care. That's what it means."
"I'm just gonna rest for a while. Just a little while."
"You know, I can take a lot of crazy shit from a lot of crazy people, but you? You are not crazy."
"What's wrong with me? What the fuck is going on inside my head?!"
"I'm sorry for being a bitch. I was a drag."
"They didn't release you because you're better. They just gave up."
"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. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try and kill the thing on the inside."
"How am I supposed to recover when I don't even understand my disease?"
"I think what you've got to do is put it down, put it away, put it in your notebook... but get it out of yourself."
"You want to be rested for tomorrow. The last night is a long one."
"So nice of you to pass judgment on us now that you're cured."
"I'm playing the villain, like you want. I give you everything you want."
"I played the fucking villain. Just like you wanted."
"No one cares if you die, [name]. Because you're dead already."
"Maybe everyone out there is a liar, and maybe the whole world is stupid and ignorant, but I'd rather be fucking in it than down here with you."
"Crazy isn't being broken, or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me... amplified."
"They were not perfect. But they were my friends."