Once Upon a Rose Quotes

“Snails first,” Pépé said, bright-eyed. “That season’s only six weeks away.” “You have a season for hunting snails?” Layla asked incredulously. Pépé gave her an indignant look. “You can’t just gather them whenever you’re hungry, you know. You’ll decimate the population, and then no snails for the future.” “What a terrible loss,” Layla said dryly. Everyone at the table stared at her as if she had lost her mind. “Exactly,” his grandfather said firmly.”
― Laura Florand, Once Upon a Rose

“She snuck a guilty peek at Matt. She didn’t want to be selfish, she didn’t want to hurt him, but music was who she was. If she didn’t have that, she didn’t have anything. As long as she was going to let him have it back eventually, surely he could survive sharing part of his valley until she remembered how to sing?”
― Laura Florand, Once Upon a Rose

“If you were, I don’t know, like… a female, and you saw me hitting that idiot, how would it look to you?” Tristan blinked at the road a minute. “Uh… like you have a nice, strong right and good reflexes? Not afraid of much? Think all problems are yours to solve first?” Matt frowned at him. “Are you sure that’s what a girl would think?” “Are we still allowed to call them girls if we’re trying to imagine their perspective? I think Allegra said something about using the word women.”
― Laura Florand, Once Upon a Rose

“Always performing who they are instead of being it”
― Laura Florand, Once Upon a Rose