Who can resist an opening?

[from Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interupted © 1993, p5:]

People ask, How did you get in there?  What they really want to know is if they are likely to end up in there as well.  I can't answer the real question.  All I can tell them is, It's easy.
---And it is easy to slip into a parallel universe.  There are so many of them:  worlds of the insane, the criminal, the crippled, the dying, and perhaps of the dead as well.  These worlds exist alongside this world and resemble it, but are not in it.
. . . most people pass over incrementally, making a series of perforations in the membrane between here and there until an opening exists.  And who can resist an opening?

[Girl, Interrupted was one of those vital, essential books that got me through the 90s alive and gave me permission to talk about my own issues with life and society.  Susanna Kaysen rocks!  I've been delighted to read her other books, and I would gladly nominate her for beatification.

May the wind be always at your back.]