The Roommate Quotes

“Every body is different, but none of them are wrong.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Isn’t that what all of us want deep down? Someone to hold us at the end of the line?”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“the scary things, the ones you spend the most time and energy talking yourself out of, are the ones that make life worth living.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Loving you is like sinking into a warm bath after a lifetime of feeling cold down to my bones.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Change always comes with a closing cost. But it's still worth trying. Not because the odds are particularly good, mind you, but considering the alternative. There's value in the struggle. Value in touching the raw and bloody parts of our souls, opening them up to the sunlight, and hoping they heal.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Some fears kill us. They drain us our whole lives, and we die filled with regret. But this isn’t one of those fears. Make a plan.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“In your rush to protect yourself from heartache, you’re always the first to jump to conclusions.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“I always thought love was supposed to make you itchy. A crawling-out-of-your-skin kind of obsession. I thought love was synonymous with pining and longing. That it had to hurt.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Art belongs to the audience, not the artist.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Josh could hardly spend more than fifteen minutes with her without wanting to eat her out until he sprained his jaw.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“You coming?” “I mean, I’m gonna try not to,” Josh muttered.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Change always comes with a closing cost,” Naomi said. “But it’s still worth trying. Not because the odds are particularly good, mind you, but considering the alternative. There’s value in the struggle. Value in touching the raw and bloody parts of our souls, opening them up to the sunlight, and hoping they heal.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“You wanna be right more than you wanna be happy”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“It was strange to want something for so long, to turn it over so many times in your mind, that the image became as faded and worn as an old Polaroid. To become so consumed by the yearning in your heart that when you got what you’d always longed for, you could hardly recognize it.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Acknowledging your pain doesn’t take away from anyone else’s.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Unfortunately, like grain alcohol, unrequited love grows more potent with time.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“His molecules had rearranged to give him this shot at loving her.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“It didn’t matter how many reasons she could list why Everett should love her. He didn’t. Not in the way she’d always wanted. And until she stopped waiting for a love she felt she was due, she’d never be able to imagine the future with anyone else.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“And you seem like the kind of girl who would take notes.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Sometimes we think we want something until it’s time to live with the consequences”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“I make myself really sick over not meeting other people’s expectations”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“No one ever died from an overdose of desire.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“people are more important than things.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“You're everything I never knew I needed, but can't imagine my life without you, and frankly, I don't want to.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Women deserve this.” She stood up. This felt like the kind of moment when a person should stand up. “Women need to know that their pleasure matters.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“Discarding old dreams was surprisingly liberating.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“I’m more than my job.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“no matter how bad we mess up, eventually we get a clean slate.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“It’ll be totally clinical. Scout’s honor.”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate

“I don’t suppose you’re robbing me?”
― Rosie Danan, The Roommate