J.D. Roth Quotes

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. Treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.

You know I'm getting a little tired of waiting for you to catch on.

They try to make you think they care about what you do but they don't. They don't want you to act a certain way. So you're easy to understand. So you won't pose a threat to them.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

If I don't come home covered head to toe in fake blood then I haven't done my job as a horror director.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

Let's play with the career, if we can't find anything else to do

I think very frequently, musicians become a victim of every song they sing. I like all kinds of recreation. It's aggressive. I want to be part of everything.

I've always been very self-motivated.

Self-tragedy is always a great way to dramatize yourself - ask any teenager.

I change as the times change. I'm a reflection of what's around me without trying at all.

Literature got me into this mess and literature is going to have to get me out of it.

What do I believe? I do not know; I do not know; I do not know.

Any show in its first season is going to probably have some growing pains.

If you don't have to lie, you don't have to remember anything. You can just go. That's really where I'm at. It's just making it up as I go along.

I have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.

In some parts of the ancient world, the hawk symbolized the sun. Back when I got this, I figured if I always had the sun on me, I wouldn't be afraid of the dark

I feel empty, not because of sadness, but because of relief, all the tension flowing out of me.

I wish I could say I felt guilty for what I did. I don't.

It happened. It was awful. You aren't perfect. That's all there is. Don't confuse your grief with guilt.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

It's strange to see people you don't know well in the morning, with sleepy eyes and pillow creases in their cheeks

Or maybe we'll make a home somewhere inside ourselves, to carry with us wherever we go- which is the way I carry my mother now.

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.

If they told us what to believe, and we didn't come to it on our own, is it still true?

Oh. I just assumed... That because I am so absorbed by him everyone must be too.

All three combined is...a different kind of stupid formerly unheard of by humankind.

I close my eyes. I don't expect Four to reassure me, and he makes no effort to, but I feel better standing here than I did out there among the people who are my friends, my faction.

If someone offer you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it.

I have discovered that sitting still leaves little spaces for the grief to get in, so I stay busy.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

For discipline is imposed not just on oneself but on those in one's orbit.

You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

I think about pressing myself against him, but I can't, because all our secrets would keep a space between us.

I also don't believe that whatever come after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions-that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

Well, I think first it was rare for me to do anything that had any kind of a romantic note to it.

It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But some dirt is destined to lingered.

I don't need to relive my fears anymore. All I need to do now is try to overcome them.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes--new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. It is impossible to erase my choices. Especially these.

You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

Now she looks pale and small, but her eyes make me think of wide- open skies that I have never actually seen, only dreamed of.

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

She wanted us to have more than five choices. Now we have none.