Alexa Donne > Quotes

“Sometimes the loneliest you could be was surrounded by people who didn't understand you.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“Don't you want to know why I don't love Bianca?"
"Because you met her?" I said into the rough fabric of his coat, sure he couldn't hear me. He could, and he laughed.
"That's why I love you Stella. You have a good hear, but also a sharp tongue. The perfect combination.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“We tell the truth," I say. "Because we have nothing to hide.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“Hey, it’s all a bitch to memorize. Birth dates, death dates, moving-to-Paris dates, painting dates.” “That’s a lot of dates.” “And yet somehow I’m still single.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“Keep your enemies close.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“I've never been kissed like that.
And I've never kissed like that”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“Thomas Hardy does his best to distract me, and it's the slow-building rage against all men ever that manages to keep my attention for a solid thirty-five-minute stretch.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“I am more than my friend's murder.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“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

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

“He bounded over to a bookshelf in the far corner of the room, extracting a hardbound volume and gleefully handing it over. "And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie," I read off of the cover.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“know enough to know that asking for the lawyer can make you look guilty.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“I couldn't help it. I laughed, "I'm sorry," I said, "but I thought that you said the Rochester was orbiting the moon. But that's crazy.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“So Sierra, who is Black, and Margot, a Korean American, get to play cover girls.”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“That's why I couldn't do it, you'd sacrifice your own happinessfor the sake of another's. You're incredible.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“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

“If dealing with your friend's death were a class, I would have an A. Need to mantain that GPA, right?”
― Alexa Donne, The Ivies

“Stella, you're going to have to let me in so I can kiss you again.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“At home I wore cute-as-shit dresses in bright colors, patterned rompers, and heart-shaped sunglasses, shorts with off-the-shoulder ruffled tops. An Instagram cliché.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“The room was beyond decadent. Tapesties that I suspected were of ancient Earth origin covered two of the walls, which were composed of a wood-like finish - a warm brownish red. It was purely cosmetic, considering that the ship was made of metal, and there was no need for wood anything on board. And I was gobsmacked to find shelves filled with actual paper-and-ink books. I'd beheld them only once in my lifetime, contained under glass at the Empire's library.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“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

“You can’t own a color,” Natalie snipes. “That’s childish.”
― 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

“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

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

“God’s way of scolding foolish mortals for building dream houses so close to the sea. Or that’s what some in town say.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“Dead rich girl is a big story, and everyone and their mother is circling the psycho-fan angle. Figured you’d joined the school paper.”
― Alexa Donne, Pretty Dead Queens

“I said it out loud to make it true. "I will leave when Hugo and Bianca are married." The words turned to ashes in my mouth.”
― Alexa Donne, Brightly Burning

“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