I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, 'Why before the world does them.' I asked him then, 'Why not wait… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“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.” — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“They had shared much of their pasts, most of their fears, and all of their tenuous and fragile hopes, but Deborah had noticed over… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Among equals gratitude is reciprocal; her gratitude to these Titans, who called themselves average and were unaware of their own tremendous strength in being… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“People were differentiated by this substance, which was called nganon . Nganon was a concentrate which was defined in each person by nurture and… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“You know... the thing that is so wrong about being mentally ill is the terrible price you have to pay for survival.” — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Yr had a region called the Fear-bog. Lactamaeon had taken her there once to see the monsters and corpses of her nightmares accumulating there… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
“Later, they began to explore the secret idea that Deborah shared with all the ill—that she had infinitely more power than the ordinary person… — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn't do to me smarter and faster and better. — Joanne Greenberg Copy Share Image
