J.D. Roth Quotes
Some of my anger has faded, but it isn't hard to call back. All I have to do is think about how cold the air was and how loud the laughter was. Look at her. She's a child.
(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.
- It doesn't do anything obvious. But it might be able to do something in here. - Then she touched her hand to her heart. - Beautiful things sometimes do.
no wonder you left."Yeah, " i say, rolling my eyes. " It was just because of the food.
Damn, ' someone behind me says. 'I was hoping we would get to scrape some Stiff pancake off the pavement later.
Killing you is not the worst thing they can do to you, " I say. "Controlling you is.
If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.
You're the one who has to live with your choice, " she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.
It's not often you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest parts of someone. It's not comfortable when you do.
There were two types of strong men: those like Uncle Monty and Abe Steinheim, remorseless about their making money, and those like my father, ruthlessly obedient to their idea of fair play.
(...) I do want to leave, in the desperate way that an animal wants to escape a trap. Wild and rabid. Ready to gnaw through bone.
Sleep, " he says. "I'll fight the bad dreams off if they come to get you.""With what?""My bar hands, obviously."In the moments before i drift off to sleep, i hear him whisper, "I love you, Tris.
Aren’t you going to ask me if I’m all right?” I say.“No, I’m pretty sure you’re not all right.”He shakes his head. “I’m going to ask you not to make any decisions until we’ve talkedabout it.
The English Language is a form of communication! Words aren't only bombs and bullets - no, they're little gifts, containing meanings. What is true in love, is equally true at law
There is his religion of art, my young successor: rejecting life! Not living is what he makes his beautiful fiction out of! And you will now be the person he is not living with!
I regret..." Tobias tilts his head, and sighs. "I regret my choice.""What Ch
I can't leave her now. I like her too much. There, I said it. But I won't say it again.
If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.
How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you'd loved since you were a boy?
It’s getting more difficult to be wise, ” he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. “I think that’s how it’ssupposed to be.
. . . I'm not pretty, not close up anyway. Generally, the closer people get to me the less hot they find me.
The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."pg 337
The past is gone. My life is a miracle! With gratitude to God, I am still here to remember and to tell what happened to me during the Holocaust of WWII.
I think I speak for everyone, " he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".
Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.
Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.
maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear
We strive for a world where every earthling has the right to live and grow. That's why we don't eat animals.
The only reason I haven't shot you yet is because he's the one who should get to do it, " I say. "Stay away from him or I'll decide I no longer care.
This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.
It's not about blame or wallowing...you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.
And what this is, I realize, is life. I don't want it. I want my parents and I have for weeks. I've been trying to claw my way back to them, and now I am so close and he is telling me not to.
I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding,
I thought that when I spilled one secret, the rest would come tumbling after, but openness is a habit you form over time, and not a switch you flip whenever you want to, I'm finding.
... but we’ll be back for dinner … especially if you’re having soup de jour!”“Now, Troy! You know very well that soup de jour means ‘soup of the day.’ It changes every time!
Most of my money remains in England, although my unworthy carcass may not under usual circumstances ...
...something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.
You know, ' he said, the condition of sourness--or monstrousness, as you might call it--doesn't have to be permanent.'P189
Some people might leave you, ' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.
This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to.
I feel something hot and violent writhing in my stomach. I want to hurt them. I stare at my eyes in the mirror. I want so, so I will.
You're desperate, and so am I, ' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"P244
