Quotes from book

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Sometimes the world is so much sicker than the inmates of its institutions.”

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

“At least being nuts is being somewhere.”