Debbie Roth

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. —Friedrich Nietzsche”
― Jessica Ward, The St. Ambrose School for Girls

“Mommy says I have to brush each night before prayers, so I can talk to God with a clean mouth.”
― EE Isherwood, 1000 Miles of Bad Road 3: After the EMPs

“At the moment when Mrs. Griffin had been notified of her husband’s death, she was in bed with her lover at the Hotel del Coronado in California, and took the news that she was a widow rather well. She untwined herself from the arms of Admiral Paul Henry Bastedo who served under Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, and proposed they get married in the morning so he could be her date at her late husband’s funeral. To the tabloids’ delight, the newlyweds took Helen Prindeville Griffin Bastedo’s private railway car to Lake Forest, Illinois, to attend the service. The act so outraged the Griffin family that they used their juice with Union Pacific to divert the train and the unlucky passengers coupled to Helen’s private car. The train choo-chooed deep into Wisconsin, denying the newlyweds their grand entrance to the funeral.”
― Griffin Dunne , The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir

“I'm a cynical reader. I demand the writer sweep me into his/her story and carry me to the end.”
― Tony Bertauski