Debbie Roth

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

“Enough of this nonsense,” Fern Hampton interrupted. “What this church needs is a vanity table in the women’s rest room.” Sam sat in his folding chair, thinking of churches that had homeless shelters and soup kitchens and raised money to send doctors to Africa to help lepers. He wished there was a leper in Harmony they could help. There’s nothing like a leper to stir up a church, he thought.”
― Philip Gulley, Just Shy of Harmony: A Harmony Novel

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

“To be hated for what she was, and not who. The idea pushed him past anger to sadness. How could someone fight that kind of hatred?”
― J.N. Chaney, Casualties of Consequence