The American Roommate Experiment Quotes
"If living in a couple of questionable neighborhoods in New York had taught me anything, it was that if someone didn’t knock, they weren’t interested in asking to be let in."
"My phone pinged with a notification, the loud and sharp sound breaking the silence."
"Involuntarily, my eyes scanned the supposedly inspirational quote on the screen: IF OPPORTUNITY DOESN’T KNOCK, BUILD A DOOR."
"I terminated the call, pushed the phone into the back pocket of my jeans, and forced myself to take a deep breath in the hopes that oxygen would reach my clearly faulty brain cells."
"We looked up at the same time, my now wide eyes meeting his brown ones."
"Every photo he posted, whether he was in it or not, brought butterflies to my stomach."
"I was starting to believe I’ve lost my touch."
"Being used by beautiful women is something I don’t mind in the slightest."
"He’s probably blaming himself. He probably feels like he could have done something if he’d stayed in the city."
"Sometimes we keep things from those we love for reasons we don’t even understand ourselves."
"Give him some time. He’ll realize on his own how isolating secrets can be."
"You won’t fix a single thing lying there like a stick man."
"It’s not smart to pretend everything’s okay when it isn’t."
"You are the only person limiting yourself, Rosie."
"Don’t let the pressure you’re putting on yourself paralyze you."
"You and your hero are two beautiful and old-fashioned fish dumped in the twenty-first-century dating pond."
"You make good money. I'm fine. This was just a little brawl over a misunderstanding."
"You’re not making anything awkward. This is just Rosie and Lucas, Date Night. Phase one of the experiment. Just like we agreed."
"You can’t go around putting on an apron for just anybody."
"You’d better hope she was worth the trouble."
"I’m not going to lie to you, Rosie. Not ever."
"You explore the spark you've felt on the first date."
"It's okay with me, you know? I love the attention."
"Let’s keep the fire hazard to ourselves, though. It can be our first ever secret."
"It's not like you didn't know you're handsome."
"I'm a thorough man. I don’t do things halfway."
"Tonight was amazing. Regardless of the pizzas."
"I wish you’d attended Lina and Aaron’s wedding, Lucas."
"Your bar is so low, Rosie. It drives me insane."
"You can't have both. Choose. What will inspire you tonight, Rosie?"
"It's really hard not to stare, Rosie. You make it hard."
"You’re the only one I want here with me, sharing food with me, and sitting so close I’m having a hard time keeping my hands to myself."
"If we weren’t friends, good friends like we are, best friends, I would take you somewhere dark and rip your clothes off with my teeth without caring to have a good reason."
"I would have crossed the busy hall, cake in hand, and I would have approached you with a dashing smile."
"Don’t make me get on my feet and pick you up myself, ángel. Because I’ll carry you to the couch if I have to."
"Every single time I’ve called you Graham, I’ve done it to remind myself that I couldn’t want you the way I do."
"I’ll never be able to get that back. My right leg just… I can’t."
"You can’t fix something that’s not broken, Lucas."
"I thought I’d been dreaming, but it’s real. You’re here."
"It’s as if my head has come up with new different ways to haunt me in my sleep."
"I want you to watch me like I’m watching you."
"I’ve missed you since you stepped out of this apartment."
"I’ve been keeping this on my phone ever since you posted it on your Instagram."
"I’ve told myself a hundred times that I shouldn’t do this, but I can’t not do it."
"Stay with me, Lucas. Be with me. I want you."
"I want to kiss you under the rain a hundred times more."
"But because we’re more. Because we’re everything."
"It’s okay. That was very selfish of me, reckless."
"I just really wish you wanted me as much as I want you."
"Life was too short, too brittle, to keep secrets and live in half-truths."
"Of course, I’m scared for you. I will always be, Bean. But that’s part of loving someone."
"You want them to thrive, to succeed, to accomplish any dream they reach for, but you also want to protect them."
"I shouldn’t have kept from Lucas how I really felt about him, either. That I loved him."
"I left Spain a shell of myself, and I’d been that way for a while before that."
"Culinary school. I was just too blind to see it. Too stubborn and hopeless."