Rachel Roth > Quotes

“A love of life pulsed into his heart; all he wanted was to rip it out and hand it over. Hold out his own heart in the palm of his hand as an offering to confirm his undying devotion.”
― Rachel Roth, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

“Her silver eyes reflected in the dark. They reminded him of the nocturnal exhibit in the zoo where the halls were pitch black and illuminated only by soft blue lights inside the cages. Pacing about in one was the first predatory big feline he ever saw. An anxious and muscular cougar not suited for the captivity it had been forced into. When the cat turned to look at the crowd, its eyes were two glowing spheres. A vivid green lining within an eye that looked like Ruby’s stared out at the viewing crowd.”
― Rachel Roth, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

“the best cure for Communist ideals is to live, even for a short time, under a Communist regime.”
― Rachel Roth, Here There Is No Why

“A laugh-out-loud moment before she would send them to the underworld; or it would have been if she could still laugh. She’s tried to remember how but she honestly couldn’t make the sound anymore, another strange side effect.”
― Rachel Roth, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

“I hand red bricks to the Jewish builders. Those rough bricks scrape the skin off our hands, but I don’t mind because I can get some free time during the lunch break or while waiting for a new shipment of bricks. Then I can sneak into the deserted bookstore, which is filled with books, though they are all in a state of disarray. Books lie open on shelves, school texts and collections of fairy tales with colorful, happy illustrations. Thick books with dark covers are lined up on one of the upper shelves, and the sight of them fills me with awe. I feel at home here, among my old friends.”
― Rachel Roth, Here There Is No Why

“by telling me that the substances will not change overnight.”
― Rachel Roth, Here There Is No Why

“The boy was bred to be Catholic; shame and judgement were his bread and butter and anger his red wine. Too bad he was an atheist.”
― Rachel Roth, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall

“In the end, he somehow ended up looking like her father. Even with the dark bloody hair, pimple face and thin, crooked smile, he, like everything else, eventually looked like her father in the end.”
― Rachel Roth, The Undead Redhead: The Girl in the Mall