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Dad lives with his wife, Giselle, in Brooklyn Heights. He and Susannah aren't particularly close at the beginning of the memoir. When Susannah spends the night with Dad just prior to her hospitalization, Susannah says unspeakable things to Dad that make him cry. She also hallucinates that Dad killed Giselle, after which she refuses to allow him into her hospital room at NYU. Despite Susannah's protests, Dad spends every day with her at the hospital outside her room. When her paranoia recedes, he begins spending his time in her room and feeds her breakfast daily. He and Mom keep a joint journal to communicate with each other about Susannah's progress and what the doctors say, and he also keeps a personal journal that he later shares with Susannah. When Dr. Najjar informs Mom and Dad that he'd like to perform a brain biopsy on Susannah, Dad especially struggles: his mother was an RN and never spoke well of brain surgeons. Over the course of Susannah's recovery, she and Dad become especially close as a result of how much time they spent together in the hospital. Despite this, Dad mostly refuses to talk about what happened, as it's too painful for him.
Dad Quotes in Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness quotes below are all either spoken by Dad or refer to Dad. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13
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Though my behavior was worsening day by day, it was still difficult for her to reconcile the old image that she had of her daughter as trustworthy, hard working, and independent with the new, unpredictable, and dangerous one.
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Chapter 19
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Though it had been eight years since their divorce, it was still hard for them to be in the same room with each other, and this shared journal allowed them to maintain common ground in the shared fight for my life.
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Chapter 41
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We didn't mean to exclude others. My dad and I had gone off to war, fought in the trenches, and against all odds had come out of it alive and intact. There are few other experiences that can bring two people closer together than staring death in the face.
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Dad Quotes in Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness quotes below are all either spoken by Dad or refer to Dad. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13
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Though my behavior was worsening day by day, it was still difficult for her to reconcile the old image that she had of her daughter as trustworthy, hard working, and independent with the new, unpredictable, and dangerous one.
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Chapter 19
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Though it had been eight years since their divorce, it was still hard for them to be in the same room with each other, and this shared journal allowed them to maintain common ground in the shared fight for my life.
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Chapter 41
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We didn't mean to exclude others. My dad and I had gone off to war, fought in the trenches, and against all odds had come out of it alive and intact. There are few other experiences that can bring two people closer together than staring death in the face.
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