I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A N...
A source page for quotes linked to Joanne Greenberg.
“It suffered and died in translation.”
“Seni övmek, böbürlenmek demektir. Deborah'ı övmekse... bağışlamak...”
“all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.”
“What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?”
“Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.”
“What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?”
“I have found this to be true, that one sin begets a dozen others.”
“Don't cut bangs with a hatchet. Don't do brain surgery with a pickax.”
“The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.”
“The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!”
“The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.”
“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”
“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”
“If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?”
“To praise one thing is not to damn another.”
“A nut is someone whose noose broke.”
“A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.”