35 Quotes by Joanne Greenberg

Money in the hand is real – coins and bills. The rest I don’t believe in, and I don’t think I ever did, really. What’s a check, after all, but a promise – mine, the bank’s. Me, I know, but the bank?

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

A nut is someone whose noose broke.

What do you do with mother love and mother wit when the babies are grown and gone away?

The memory may not change in form, but years of underlining give it a weight that can become tremendous. Each of the many, many times you are called to remember the cold of abandonment, the bars, and the loneliness, this experience says deep inside you, ‘You see? That’s the way life is, after all.

Anybody can hear – it takes brains to listen.

Sometimes you have to fight what won’t yield and put yourself where it’s safe to be crazy.

What cook can match herself against hunger and memory?