The American Roommate Experiment Quotes

“Rosalyn Graham,
Will you be my best friend?
My roommate.
My Dancing Queen.
My experiment life partner.
My heart.
Will you be mine, just like I'm completely, hopelessly yours?”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“I read you like you were my favorite book, Rosie. Like I’ve memorized you.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Remember to pick the boy that will pant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“I missed being in love with the idea of love, too.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Sometimes we keep things from those we love for reasons we don’t even understand ourselves.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Everything I didn't believe of myself, everything I couldn't possibly think you saw in me, was there. I saw myself through your eyes. You loved me.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Some days, I found excuses to touch her. I'd tell her she had something in her hair. Or that I'd thought there had been something clinging to her clothes. Sometimes, I reached for her and didn't come up with an excuse in time so I just smiled at her like a total idiot, and hoped for the best.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Rosie: you’re supposed to side with me. Lucas: I’ll always be on your side.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Life was too short, too brittle, to keep secrets and live in half-truths. Even when we thought that we were protecting those we loved. Or protecting ourselves. Our hearts. Because the reality was that without honesty, without truth, we never lived fully.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“To those waiting on love, be patient. Love is a total drama queen. It’s just waiting to make an entrance.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Open your eyes, preciosa.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“I've waited enough. I've waited a lifetime without me knowing. So why don't you open this door and let me show you?”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Mamá had taught me better than to
leave things hanging over my head. Ignoring and waiting for them to go away on their own wasn’t the smart thing to do. Because they didn’t. Sooner or later—and just when you least expected them to—they’d fall off right on top of you, and chances were, they’d take you down with them if you let them.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“It’s not about forgetting, but about forgiving yourself and putting in the work to be better. And I tried every day to do that. I’d also learned to live with who I was today without resenting what I’d lost. And I sure as hell knew what I wanted in my future.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Lina me va a cortar las pelotas.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“There’s no such thing as silly when it comes to dreams. No matter how new or old they are.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“First impressions were like words penned with permanent ink. Once etched on paper, there was little one could do to change them.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Because as much as touching Lucas usually left every cell in my body tingling, I was beginning to understand that touching someone you loved was about much more than just that. It wasn’t always about the sparks and the fireworks. Not exclusively. It could also be about the peace it brought you. The comfort. And for all the romances I’d read and the one, almost two, I’d written, I hadn’t known that. I would have never imagined that touching a man could light me up inside and quiet every worry and every noise in the world.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Sometimes, when we're in pain, we need to come to the realization on our own that we need help. Before we can ever accept it.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“God, I loved him. I had fallen in love with Lucas Martín.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“That slow grin broke free, making me a little weak in the knees. Inevitably, I matched him with one of my own. “There it is,” he said, his fingers still on my chin and his eyes dipping down to my lips. “Deslumbrante. Como el mismo sol.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Dear God. The amount of information one could learn from someone’s socials when one looked long and frequently enough was terrifying.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“She used to tell me how the moment I was born, she knew she had found her light in the dark. That one lighthouse that, no matter what, was always up. Lighting up the night and signaling her way home.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“That was… intense. And a little heartbreaking.”
“But that’s life for you. Intense and heartbreaking.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“This is not a one-way street, Rosie. You look after me and I look after you. We take care of each other. We're a team.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“It’s not smart to pretend everything’s okay when it isn’t. When you bottle something up so tightly, the lid will blow up. Sooner rather than later.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Of course, I'm scared," Dad had answered. "I'm terrified 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. To soften any blow that might come. But I'd never be disappointed in you." He had paused and then added, "And I'll always make an effort to understand, Bean.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“my safe haven. My normal. My bad days, my good days. My every day.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“Remember to pick the boy that will plant a garden for you instead of just getting you the flowers, Bean.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment

“I’m crying because we’re just friends, because none of this is real.”
― Elena Armas, The American Roommate Experiment