chirysalis’s Reviews > I Never Promised You a Rose Garden > Status Update
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"I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice... [...] I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of these things. The only reality I offer is challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever level you are capable. I never promise lies, and the rose garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!"
— 21 hours, 39 min ago
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""The world we gave her wasn't so horrible," Jacob said.
"But she never took your world at all, don't you see? She created a robot that went through the motions of reality, and behind it the true person drew further and further away.""
— 21 hours, 28 min ago
"But she never took your world at all, don't you see? She created a robot that went through the motions of reality, and behind it the true person drew further and further away.""
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"I never figured that kid was really sick. Every time I saw her I thought: There goes the rich girl. She walked as if we were too low to look at. It was all beneath her; and the sarcastic way she said things—not what she said, really, but the coldness. A spoiled little rich kid, that's all. [...] That snooty little bitch never did anything hard in all her life."
— Sep 06, 2026 02:48AM
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"From her absorption in the telling of events she looked out again and saw the doctor's expressive face indignant for her. She wanted to thank this Earth person who was capable of being moved to anger. "I did not know that they endowed Earth-ones with insides," she said musingly, and then she was very tired."
— Sep 06, 2026 02:44AM
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"If one is to be doomed, one must be beautiful, or the drama is only a comedy. And therefore, Un-beautiful....
Kill me, my lord, in the form of an eagle,"
— Sep 06, 2026 02:25AM
Kill me, my lord, in the form of an eagle,"
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"The sick are all so afraid of their own uncontrollable power! Somehow they cannot believe that they are only people, holding only a human-sized anger!"
— Sep 06, 2026 02:20AM
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""What is this place?" she had asked.
"Dreamland," had come the answer, and then the hardest, longest burning of that secret place she could imagine."
— Sep 06, 2026 02:11AM
"Dreamland," had come the answer, and then the hardest, longest burning of that secret place she could imagine."
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"I once had a patient who used to practice the most horrible tortures on himself, and when I asked him why he did such things, he said, ‘Why, before the world does them.’ I asked him then, ‘Why not wait and see what the world will do?’ and he said, ‘Don’t you see? It always comes at last, but this way at least I am master of my own destruction.’ "
— Sep 06, 2026 02:03AM