Brain on Fire (2016)

Chloë Grace Moretz: Susannah Cahalan

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Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Susannah Cahalan : Have you ever been trapped? Lost in your own body, lost in your own mind, lost in time? So desperate to escape, to just... Get out.

• Susannah Cahalan : What else had I forgotten? What else would come back, knocking me off balance and reminding me how tenuous my grip on reality was?

• Susannah Cahalan : How many people do you think throughout history were diagnosed as Schizophrenic, psychotic, bipolar, or... maybe just plain crazy, when they had something that could've been so easily diagnosed?

• Susannah Cahalan : [narrating]  I had to learn everything from scratch. How to walk again. How to talk again. Smile. How to be a daughter. To love Stephen again. How to write. I had to learn how to exist again.

• [last lines] 

  Susannah Cahalan : This new Susannah is a lot like the old Susannah, but she's so much stronger. Because for the very first time, I feel ready to tackle the mystery of what happened to me. To find an answer. An answer that could possibly save a life.

• Susannah Cahalan : [yelling at the drippy faucet]  What? What? Why won't you stop? Do it again! Say it! I didn't think so.