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“When you stop letting other people control your narrative and you focus on who you are, what matters to you, and why it’s important to share that with other people, then you’re going to have a lot more moments when you can unlock your own potential and inspire other people.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“Now it’s time to stop reading someone else’s story and go tell your own.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“It's possible to be several things at the same time. You can think different thoughts and hold different identities and be fascinated by different things all at once. It doesn't make you weak or distracted; it makes you human.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“If you're interested in being a leader and creating change, the most important thing you can offer people is a big story in which they play an important and meaningful role, just like metal did for me. Fail to do that. and you'll lose them to someone who will.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“When you're a malleable teenager seeking the approval of others, you can find yourself conforming to what you think other people's tastes and interests are instead figuring out what works for you. That brings with it a special degree of contradiction for many young metalheads: reveling in an anti-conformity attitude of rejecting popular culture while also figuring out how to conform within social circles based on the expectations, styles, and tastes of those setting the tone for what's >really cool. Just because you reject mainstream groupthink doesn't mean you're not susceptible to underground groupthink in your own bubbles, circles, and bullshit.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“The stories we tell ourselves and the stories other people tell about us have tremendous political power. True power never comes from trying to fit yourself into someone else's story. When people tell you to look and act a certain way to be powerful, they're telling you this to keep you out of their power, not to share it. To have power, you have to generate it for yourself. You have to show other people who it is you are and how it is you can help them to achieve their own dreams.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“Reality doesn't have to follow the pacing and predictability of fiction, and neither do you.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“Someone attacking you for being you doesn’t have to be the last word. There are lots of ways to flip the script; find a way to make that negativity work for you. What is the flaw or weakness in what someone’s doing to you? How do you exploit that to turn the argument around and come out better for it, if still bruised and scarred? You may not get that opportunity often, and sometimes the hurt is real and there’s nothing much in the moment you can do to make it better, because punching someone in the face or burying them under a pile of bricks is, generally speaking, frowned upon. But how it governs your day-to-day actions afterward is, to an extent, up to you, through how you choose to process that information. Will you let it break you down? Or will you never let the bastards grind ya down?”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change

“At its core, town government is the closest government to the people and, accordingly, you truly get a flavor for the residents of the town by watching their best-and-brightest elected leaders reviewing rezoning applications peacefully during one meeting and cussing one another out at the next. Oftentimes, members conduct themselves just as professionally mundane as in any other form of government, but when they do flare up, it’s the sort of rocket launch that occasionally gets the cops and/or the courts involved, as I covered multiple times in Haymarket. (My favorite, of course, involved a town council member being found guilty of “using abusive languageâ€� following a dispute about what synonym for testicle he told the mayor to suck during a parade.) After all, nothing exemplifies former U.S. House Speaker Tip O’Neill’s famous observation that “All politics is localâ€� like town government, especially with the more modern take that “All politics is personal.”
― Danica Roem, Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change