J.D. Roth Quotes

Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

life is not about being fearless its about controlling your fears

You won’t shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character, " I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

But I know that for every good thing that comes along, there is always a cost.

Certainly, it's important to acknowledge and identify the effects of BPD on your life. It's equally important to realize that it neither dictates who you are nor fixes your destiny.

I didn't scream I wasn't afraid. I knew I was strong enough to survive it all.

Some days are harder than others, but I am ready to live each one of them. I can't sacrifice myself, this time.

Every man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

yEvery man's endeavor was imbued with responsibility

There was only one option left, and it was letting go.

Caleb told me that our mother said there was evil in everyone, and the first step to loving someone else is to recognize that evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.

You don't know how Fate finds you, and neither do I. But until it does, we get to be whatever we can be."pg 354

You’re the one who has to live whit your choice" she says."Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.

I hear something in her words that's right, but it's hard to believe her right now.

In that moment I’m able to accept the inevitability of how I feel, though not with joy. I need to talk to someone. I need to trust someone. And for whatever reason, I know, I know it’s her.

Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here?I want to be.I can.I believe it.

When someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing - the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

I confessed to Tobias, soon after that, that I had lost my entire family.And he assured me that he was my family now. -Tris Prior

They talk about prohibition in America. What can one do in a country such as that?   'What does one do in America when one is sad - without alcohol?' asks Zwonimir.

He still smiles all the time, but now his smiles look like they're made out of water, about to drip down his face.

Sometimes I feel like we are the same, but sometimes, like right now, I feel the separation between our personalities like I've just run into a wall.

The tunnel is lit at long intervals, so in the dark space between each dim lamp, I fear that I am lost until a shoulder bumps mine. In the circles of light I am safe again.

Is that what eternity is for, to muck over a lifetime's minutiae? Who could have imagined that one would have forever to remember each moment of life down to its tiniest component?

Mess with a magical chic and you get some major clean-up when she is pissed!!!

Aa is for animals, friends, not food. We don't eat our friends. They would find it quite rude!

In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.

Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

But replacing hunger for divine connection with Double Stuf Oreos is like giving a glass of sand to a person dying of thirst. It creates more thirst, more panic.

Mockery is childish. It does not become you.

If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.

I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge new and strong, that the water will heal me.

If you just set people in motion they'll heal themselves.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

Yeah 'cause throwing knives at a girk is totally Going to get her to like you. #Tobiaslogic

No, I just thought I'd shoot bullets out of my nose

Anyone called upon to view misery will view criminality differently. All state officials should be required to spend a month serving in a homeless shelter to learn love.

I’m not God, and I can’t always offer chances. I’m not sure if this won’t be your last.

I like to hurt people too. I can make the cruelest choice. The difference is, sometimes I don't, and you always do, and that makes you evil.

She made ugly things beautiful, somehow, and he would never understand it. "pg 346

I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

I am afraid that if I start to sob, I will never stop until I shrivel up like a raisin.

A man who's discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.

Anger is a legitimate feeling, one often designed for self-protection.

But a person can only keep reality - and anger - at bay for so long before the truth comes back again.