Pretty Dead Queens Quotes

“Good. Fuck her. Fuck this dress. She made me into her doppelganger, living out some sick fantasy she’d failed to accomplish with my mom. But I am my own person. Not a puppet.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“She told everyone I was a raging lesbian in seventh grade, made me a social pariah.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“We only have to save enough of the beaches to make people happy. That’s politics. Give a little, but never yours, and then take what you want.” I like Natalie, but the phrase Eat the rich rattles in my mind.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“No, I actually am a fan,” she says darkly. “How do you think I knew her books well enough to spot the patterns? Wait on the porch.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“How else was I supposed to know what happens to the human body when hanged by the neck?” she says as if discussing the weather. “Celia, it’s all for the sake of my books. Making them better. So I can leave you the legacy. The Maura Weston brand.” “You murdered him for…research?”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“You figured out not only Benjamin, but me. Fifty-two years, and you’re the first one.” She goes from beaming to a frown. “I cannot believe that fuckboy blew it for me,” she mutters, almost to herself. “But at least it’s you. My darling granddaughter.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Don’t go spreading it around,” Luke says. “This isn’t Los Angeles. Seaview can be backwards as hell, and I’d rather not have the whole town gossiping about it. I’m out to my parents and close friends as bi, but Caleb’s not out.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“It was better you weren’t there,” Amber says. “The funeral was a shit show. Your blackmail bombshell was all anyone could talk about. There was some light jeering when Natalie’s parents got up to speak.” “That’s awful,” I say genuinely. “No matter what she did, or her dad, it’s still a funeral. This is all my fault.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Joe Bedecki is a lot of things: a lech, a dick, a sad old man. But there’s one thing he’s not: a killer. Joe Bedecki didn’t murder Caroline Quinn.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“I was so terrified you’d lose interest in me. And Natalie had worn me down, convinced me I was nothing but trash that had to be kept secret. I’ve been licking my wounds since the summer, and you seemed too good to be true. I didn’t want to blow it.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Excuse me?” I explode before Ben or Gabriel have the chance. I can take care of myself. “That’s some misogynist bullshit. What? Did you kill Natalie because she refused to be controlled? Because she knew your secret? I saw your texts from that night.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“The mayor cheating with his daughter’s best friend. And they either left to hook up or to murder her.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“It’s so unlike Bronte. Raw and royally pissed. “You don’t mean that. Or maybe you do. But she’s dead. We have to find out why. Who did it. Please, will you help us?”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Is he sleeping with her? Secretary cliché?”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Extended vacation. Taking in the sights. A little town lore. You find it interesting as well, I see. Your grandmother’s legacy.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“It’s complicated, and I’m not exactly going to spill my secret to you on the street, outside of a police station. I barely even know you.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Honey, I was a teenage girl caught up in my own melodrama, so I wouldn’t know.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“All right, that is an odd question. Why would I want a dead girl’s crown? Even if they’d offered, I’d have refused. I’m not stupid. This town mourned her like she was a saint.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“I couldn’t eat if I tried; my stomach churns. Suzanne was supposed to pick me up from therapy. I was meant to be in that car.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“I thought she was eavesdropping on private therapy sessions in order to blackmail people, what would you have said?”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Hi.” Ben is sheepish as he opens the door. “Sorry you had to come here. I’m on cookie guard, unfortunately. Grandpa’s being defiant, and if I leave, he will eat an entire sleeve of Oreos and fuck up his blood sugar.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Her smile is thin, strained. Fake-it-until-you-make-it vibes. She’s in the numb phase, going through the motions of normalcy. Painfully relatable”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“He said that, did he? Frank’s always loved sensational conspiracy theories. But, oh, Cecelia…”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“So keep this to yourself. Joe Bedecki was the easy collar, and the sheriff’s office has always liked it easy.” “ ‘Easy collar’ how?” “Joe’s family was poor, and he’d gotten into trouble with the law more than a few times before he landed the janitor gig. He was young, handsome, known to flirt with the girls at school. They narrowed in on him right away.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Oh, sweetheart, you’ve really twisted yourself into a pretzel, haven’t you? Tilting at windmills. I sent Suzanne to the hotel to give Reama an ARC of my next book. Let’s take her off before she sees it.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Good for you being the belle of the ball, but I say better not to entangle yourself with anyone in this black hole of a town. You’ll be off to college before you know it. Don’t need the dead weight.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“know it must have been traumatizing with everything with Natalie. You know I get it. We’ve both lost parents. Death is a shitty vortex. I’m not judging you for the sudden obsession with Natalie, considering. Just be careful, okay?”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“I think I got pity-invited to their group-therapy session. Or I was asked along to rehash how I found the body.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“It means that I find it weird,” she throws his word back at him, “that you’ve been dodging my dad all day and refuse to be interviewed about your alibi.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“I don’t like how you seem to be going out of your way to discuss this case with other witnesses.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens