When making a life decision, you can't trust your head.

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

Letting go is the best revenge. It frees your heart for much more satisfying pursuits.

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

Sometimes the best thing to do is to just cry. Even when there's no reason to.

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer...
What good is your reality then?

---From the novel, I never Promised you a Rose Garden

The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable.

---From the Novel, I Never Promised you a Rose Graden.

She longed for blindness and igorance, for she now realized that if she herself saw or recognized anything, it would have to be exposed for discission, however shameful, fearful or ugly it may be...
---From the Novel, I Never Promised you a Rose Graden.

Where deformity of the body is regarded with mercy, death and it's conventions are heaped with scorn.

---From the Novel, I Never Promised you a Rose Graden.

Can you let them be what they are and be what you are and still love them?

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

Occasionally others are damned by you to punish you.

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

You have to take your life into your own hands; otherwise you can be damn sure someone else will take it in theirs.

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