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

suicide is the ultimate 'one-up,' as it were, the accusation that brooks no defense, the argument won at last.

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

Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.

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.

...to experience the reality was to suffer a boredom as endless as the illness itself...the boredom of insanity was a great desert, so great that anyone's violence or agony seemed an oasis, and the brief companionship seemed like a rain in the desert that was numbered and counted and remembered long after it was gone.

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