“suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.” LastsArgumentUltimateSuicideDefenseBrooksAccusation Author:Joanne Greenberg
“And if I fight, then for what?""For nothing easy or sweet, and I told you that last year and the year before that. For your own challenge, for your own mistakes and the punishment for them, for your own definition of love and of sanity - a good strong self with which to begin to live.” IfsYearsSelfLastsFightingStrongEasyChallengesMistakeSweetDefinitionsPunishmentSanityLast YearDefinition Of LoveStrong Self Book:I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel
“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 and see what the world will do?' and he said, 'Don't you see? It always come at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.” WorldWayDoeSaidLastsUsedWaitingMy OwnPracticeMastersDestructionPatientHorribleTortureWhy Not Book:I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel Source: I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel