The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie and a bore too!

- Joanne Greenberg

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 de…

- Joanne Greenberg

The hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.

- Joanne Greenberg

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

- Joanne Greenberg

The people on the edge of Hell were most afraid of the devil; for those already in hell the devil was only another and no one in particular.

- Joanne Greenberg

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.

- Joanne Greenberg

suicide is a crime - the only crime that, if successful, guarantees that the perpetrator will not be punished for it. This makes it the most serious …

- Joanne Greenberg

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

- Joanne Greenberg

Measure the hate you feel now, and the shame. That quantity is your capacity also to love and to feel joy and to have compassion.

- Joanne Greenberg