The woman was sane; she accepted the heavy penalties of reality and enjoyed its gifts also.
Joanne GreenbergShe 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.
Joanne GreenbergThe hidden strength is too deep a secret. But in the end...in the end it is our only ally.
Joanne GreenbergAnd 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.
Joanne Greenberg