Debbie Roth

“Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say “Ay.” These discontinuous fragments, glittering and dark, coalesced in a bewildering lunar brilliance. Fever and a silver chill contended within the child; he had become both voices crying against each other amid the fruit trees. His tight dark home, so crammed with love of him, had broken open, released him into the infinite freedom, the total coolness, of impersonation. As the light in the living room failed, he blindly faced his life, discovering himself to be, to have been since birth, an actor, an excuse for the emotions of others.”
― John Updike, Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism

“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

“God doesn’t promise us that life will always be fair. The way you move forward in faith is knowing that God is working all things for your good.”
― Joel Osteen

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