Susanna Kaysen Quotes

How many of you guys in your own experience with women have learned that no means yes, if you know how to spot it?

As soon as we start putting our thoughts into words and sentences everything gets distorted, language is just no damn good—I use it because I have to, but I don’t put any trust in it. We never understand each other.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

That is all that happened. Why did you hear something else?

The Doctor says, "You'll live to be 60!" "I AM 60!" "See, what did I tell you?"

The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony.

It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.

The surest sign that two people no longer speak the same language is that both say ironic things to one another but that neither senses the irony.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.

I think I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.

Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?

Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

The message sent is not always the message received.

Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding.

Sometimes I feel like I'm making a connection with a stranger, but then it turns out I'm not. Like, I was in a mall, and I saw this lady hitting her kid. So I went up to her, and I was like, "Yeah, get him!" She got all mad at me. I was like, "I'm on your side here."

One age misunderstands another; and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own ugly way.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

Inconceivable!" "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

This morning my dad called me up and said, 'So, tonight's your last show, huh.' And I said, 'No, Dad, that's someone else.'

I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.

A mutual misunderstanding.

I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower, you hung all your associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see—and I don't.

It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.