J.D. Roth Quotes

Leaving us with Eric is like hiring a babysitter who spends his time sharpening knives.

I feel bare. I didn't realize I wore my secrets as armor until they were gone and now everyone sees me as I really am.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

That's what love does. When it's right, it makes you more than you were, more than you thought you could be.

It doesn't prove anything except that you're bullying us. Which, as I recall, is a sign of cowardice.

She can't possibly be me, though she moves when I move

I know that I'll be writing for young adults for a long time. Mostly because I just love the readers and the teachers and librarians that I interact with.

The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.

I'll say it one last time: Be brave.

Reading is such a huge part of my life.

I feel like what I have become is halfway between my mother and my father, violent and impulsive and desperate and afraid. I feel like I have lost control of what I have become.

I think they're going to force us to eat lots of cake and then take an unreasonably long nap.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

We kiss again and this time, it feels familiar. I know exactly how we fit together, his arm around my waist, my hands on his chest, the pressure of his lips on mine. We have each other memorized.

Lies require commitment.

One choice can transform you. One choice can destroy you. Once choice will define you.

I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.

The more varied the characters, the better, as far as I'm concerned.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

Thank you for your honesty.

Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me.

I like the idea of experimenting with different kinds of formats, and I think you've got to keep on your toes and keep changing.

The better the writing, the easier it gets.

I can't do anything else. So if this falls through, I'm screwed.

Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged -- where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?

Beatrice. We should think of our family. But. But we must also think of ourselves.

True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy.

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

Love includes vulnerability, surrender, self-valuing, steadiness, and a willingness to face - rather than run from - the worst of ourselves.

No act of love is ever wasted.

Being hungry is like being in love: if you don't know, you're probably not.

The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

Imagine treating yourself with the kindness that you show people you love.

I tell my retreat students that they need to remember two things: to eat what they want when they're hungry and to feel what they feel when they're not.

Awareness, not deprivation, informs what you eat. Presence, not shame, changes how you see yourself and what you rely on.

If you want to eat when you're not hungry, you're hungry for something else.

Many of the critics have kids of their own. It scares the hell out of them to think that their kids could be anything remotely like David Lee Roth.

That is how it feels. Like everything between us is twisted together, friendship and love and family, so I cant tell the difference between any of them.

He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off a roof, I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.

Critics like Elvis Costello because critics are like Elvis Costello.

The reason the factions were evil is because there was no way out of them. They gave us the illusion of choice without actually giving us a choice.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.

Can you be a girl for a few seconds?" "I'm always a girl" I frown. "You know what I mean. Like a silly, annoying girl" I twirl my hair around my finger. "Kay.

I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.