Extended Reading

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