Joanne Greenberg Quotes
The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.
The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
Health is not simply the absence of sickness.
To experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.
The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!
I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice.
And what does that signify to you?' he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.
