Under the Rose Quotes

“Why the coy drama? I want him and he wants me; who needs subtext?”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose

“There was Malcolm in the front row, his hand resting on the shoulder of the knight I knew as Poe. I looked at the list of names beneath the photo.
-James Orcutt.
What a ridiculously normal name. I’d half been expecting Darth Vader”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose

“Maybe she’s helping him because his hands are full,” Lydia suggested.
The girl kissed a trace of chocolate from the corner of his mouth.
“Or not.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose

“My best friend, a liar. My society brothers, my lover, and now my best friend. Any second now, my parents would call and tell me they were actually space aliens. Or European royalty. Or Republicans.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose

“Soze shook his head. “If someone checks our Internet search records, don’t you think it will look suspicious that before we called the police, we checked up on the evidence?”
Poe laughed mirthlessly. “We’re Rose & Grave, junior. Everything we do looks suspicious.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose

“Around this time, I decided to go back to the bathroom and, oh, I don’t know, wash my hands, brush my hair, maybe pluck my eyebrows.
Stuff.”
― Diana Peterfreund, Under the Rose