Never give up, it can often times be the best revenge you can get.

Inside the biggest, harriest man, theres a little boy asking, "What do I do now?"

---From the Novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

To hide one can forget, or pretend to another happening, or distort. They are all just good methods of getting away from the truth that might be bitter.

---From the Novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

"Sometimes, the world is so much more sicker than the inmates of its institutions."

From the novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

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

From the novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

"You will not have to give up anything until you are ready, and then there will be something to take it's place."

From the novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

Sometimes only a feeling would sweep over her. The feeling would be given a voice, but the logic behind it, by which the world might have been convinced, remained mute, and so she lost faith in her own desires.

....Part of her present feeling, she knew, was delight in her power to reward and punish.

From the Novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

It's easier to die than to watch somebody die.

You can't change the past, but a smart girl won't let that stop her... =]

---From the Novel, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden