35 Quotes by Joanne Greenberg

Don’t cut bangs with a hatchet. Don’t do brain surgery with a pickax.

To praise one thing is not to damn another.

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer... What good is your reality then?

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

There is nothing that you can do to me that my own craziness doesn’t do to me smarter and faster and better.

The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.

She now knew that the death she feared might not be a physical one, that it could be death of the will, the soul, the mind, the laws, and thus not death, but a perpetual dying.

If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy.

A humane and authentic book written by another voice from the trenches.