“The horror of the Pit lay in the emergence from it, with the return of her will, her caring, and her feeling of the need for meaning before the return of meaning itself.” — 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