Joanne Greenberg Quote

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.

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: A Novel (ed. Macmillan, 2009) - ISBN: 9781429988773