Alex Flinn Quotes

Leaves. Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of them, brown and yellow and red and orange, in bright piles on the concrete floor. Some were so high they almost covered the rosebushes. ~ Alex Flinn

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books. ~ Alex Flinn

Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing? ~ Alex Flinn

I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why? ~ Alex Flinn

If you're not a hero, does that make you a villain? ~ Alex Flinn

I try not to. I mean, you shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right? ~ Alex Flinn

Wow hav u read beastly its really awesome i mean u wont want 2 put it down ever ~ Alex Flinn

And Caitlin smiled. I Wanted to put her smile in my pocket to look at over and over ~ Alex Flinn

Through her jacket, I could feel her heartbeat. It made me happy to know she was alive, was real, was there. ~ Alex Flinn

I am a princess. I do not follow fashions
I make them. ~ Alex Flinn

Control is part of faking it ~ Alex Flinn

Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous."
"What's she going to have - an assault weapon?"
"Worse," I say. "She's got magical powers. ~ Alex Flinn

I glances at Sloane, who was having a joyous reunion with fifty close friends she hadn`t seen since yesterday. ~ Alex Flinn

The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential. ~ Alex Flinn

My quote is that a guy name beastly theres a guy that has a wierd face and he loves her. so much and the women didn,t like him at all. then they get in love alot in the end.and then he gets his face normal. ~ Alex Flinn

Meg makes a face and lays her hand on my arm. "And why, exactly, would John want to see Eurotrash?"
"Hello?" Ryan says. "Because he's a seventeen-year old guy with normal male urges, and she's got-" He holds both hands out from his chest.
"Really pretty eyes," I complete his sentence. ~ Alex Flinn

You can't respect yourself if you're letting someone beat you up–inside or out. ~ Alex Flinn

It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it. ~ Alex Flinn

Parents always forgive you. Like sometimes, you see parents on the news, and their kid just got busted for murdering a 7-11 clerk, and they're like, 'But my Bubba's a good boy. He'd never hurt a fly.' So I'm sure your parents would forgive you for whatever you did. ~ Alex Flinn

Even in my time, we knew that men were not in
charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night. ~ Alex Flinn

A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price ~ Alex Flinn

I am living my death, little by little, each day. ~ Alex Flinn

There is something wrong with this world." She stood like she was making a speech. "Something very wrong when it's the twenty-first century and this type of elitist travesty is still being perpetuated. ~ Alex Flinn

If I didn't believe, there would be nothing left. ~ Alex Flinn

Still, as I watch the sun journey higher up on the horizon, I appreciate that, for only the second time in my entire life, I am alone, blessedly alone, with no one to tell me what to do or what to wear, no one to have to be polite to. Nothing. But I do not wish to be alone, not entirely. Now that I am finally alone, it feels ... lonely. ~ Alex Flinn

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most ... you are beastly. ~ Alex Flinn

Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you. ~ Alex Flinn

I can't go back and wait and wait ... if [he] isn't going to come. ~ Alex Flinn

Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid? ~ Alex Flinn

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or ... or ... ~ Alex Flinn

I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles. ~ Alex Flinn

You desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other. ~ Alex Flinn

Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it! ~ Alex Flinn

A single white roes goes with everything, doesn´t it, and it symbolizes purity. ~ Alex Flinn

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth. ~ Alex Flinn

Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance. ~ Alex Flinn

I wonder how many times in my life I would have been able to prevent something, change something, do something different, if only I'd listened to someone. ~ Alex Flinn

And yet, even when all was well, as Shakespeare said, that ends well, did they say 'Hey, Kendra, we understand that you made a noble effort. Why not come to the palace for some champagne sometime?' Noooooo. They're all, 'Get thee from our kingdom, witch, or it's the guillotine." They're lucky I didn't turn them into talking swine. ~ Alex Flinn

Who or what is an Ipod? ~ Alex Flinn

When you've found out that the person you love loves you, you can't
delay. You have to hurry. ~ Alex Flinn

I'm a bat, want to see me fly? ~ Alex Flinn

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world."
"Not my world."
I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go. ~ Alex Flinn

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying. ~ Alex Flinn

People are very fearful these days. ~ Alex Flinn

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose. ~ Alex Flinn

What happened December 12?" Polyester asks.
I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted.
He hit me."
The bug slides to the floor. ~ Alex Flinn

Better?" I went from holding her hand to hugging her. "Lindy, you loved me when I wasn't even human.
You kissed me when I had no lips. You saw what was deep down inside me when I wasn't even sure
about it myself. Believe me, there's no way I could do better. I think you're perfect. ~ Alex Flinn

He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie ... ~ Alex Flinn

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. ~ Alex Flinn

So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had."
I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway. ~ Alex Flinn

I can't go on like this ~ Alex Flinn

Funny how you can know something and yet not believe it's possible. ~ Alex Flinn

A lie can travel half way 'round the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. ~ Alex Flinn

I only came to give you a second chance. ~ Alex Flinn

Trust me? I held my breath for her answer. She had every reason not to trust me. I'd been her kidnapper, her captor, yet I'd rather have died than hurt a single hair on her head. ~ Alex Flinn

I took a punch at one of the rosebushes. It got its revenge by stabbing me in the hand. ~ Alex Flinn

I wish to go with you, not as man and wife, but merely as friends, travel companions, the sort of happy-go-lucky chums about whom rollicking old ballads of the road are written. ~ Alex Flinn

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions ... it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad. ~ Alex Flinn

Love is Never Ugly ~ Alex Flinn

Every cloud must have a silver lining
Wait until the sun shines through
Smile my honey dear, while I kiss away each tear
Or else I shall be melancholy too! ~ Alex Flinn

Listen." The voice is extremely loud, and I am forced to hold the telephone away from my ear.
"I don't know who you are, or why you have Jack's phone, but he is my boyfriend, and - "
Boyfriend? What is a boyfriend? Perhaps it is something like a beau.
"Is he engaged to you, then?" I hope not.
"What? No. Of course not."
"Oh, what a relief. He is my true love, and you do not sound very nice."
"What? Listen, you ... "
And then, strangely enough, she calls me a female dog. ~ Alex Flinn

To see Kyle, to wave to him, like getting off at the 79th street station, near where Kyle lives, instead of going all the way to the Lincoln Center station near school, so I can grab coffee and watch him walk by before I, too, walk on to Tuttle, about fifty feet behind him. ~ Alex Flinn

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent. ~ Alex Flinn

A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he's never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn't actually want what she thought she wanted all along.
pg. 324 of Bewitching ~ Alex Flinn

I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me. ~ Alex Flinn

I remember how Talia got me to talk about the gardening thing. I've never told anyone else about that, but with this girl, I sort of feel like I can be myself without worrying about looking uncool. After all, she doesn't even know what "cool" is. ~ Alex Flinn

Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love. ~ Alex Flinn

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about. ~ Alex Flinn

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time. ~ Alex Flinn

To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon ... Your greatest fear. ~ Alex Flinn

I can see into his soul, and it is beautiful. ~ Alex Flinn

This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City. ~ Alex Flinn

Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride. ~ Alex Flinn

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them. ~ Alex Flinn

You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you. ~ Alex Flinn

Somewhere down the road ... I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games. ~ Alex Flinn

I'm here, my love,"... ~ Alex Flinn

Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that ~ Alex Flinn

You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right? ~ Alex Flinn

Mr. Anderson:Well, maybe we all should call it a night. Congrats to the happy couples. Will there be wedding bells soon?

SnowGirl:Definitely. I mean, if you help a guy kill a dwarf, he should marry you. ~ Alex Flinn

You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you ... ~ Alex Flinn

This is where he should say that he is in love with me, that I have changed his life and that he loves me for it. But he doesn't. Is it because he is shy? Or because he is too young to say such a thing? Or is it merely because he does not love me? The worst of it is, I am falling in love with him. ~ Alex Flinn

But Adrian, sometimes it's nice to let her be smart too. ~ Alex Flinn

I love you, I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face. She was far too kind for that. My fear was a greater one - that she won't say it back. ~ Alex Flinn

But now it all floods back - the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her ~ Alex Flinn

It had seemed like such a good, such a romantic idea, to drive and not stop for gas. ~ Alex Flinn

I'm a better person when I'm with you. I don't want to stop being that person. I don't want you to go ~ Alex Flinn

What they don´t tell you about Europe is how completely lame it is. ~ Alex Flinn

The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache. ~ Alex Flinn

Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind. ~ Alex Flinn

By the time Vizzini fell over, dead, I'd finished my popcorn and put the bag down. I wanted some more. It seemed like the beast was always hungry. I wondered, if I was transformed back, would I be fat? ~ Alex Flinn

I believed she'd gotten past ther hatred of me, turning to pity instead. But how could I make that into love? ~ Alex Flinn

Of course, maybe I'd end up like one of those crazy old people with, like, sixty cats. And one day, the neighbors would complain about the smell, and it would turn out I'd died and the cats had eaten me.
Still, it might be nice to have a cat. ~ Alex Flinn

Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday. ~ Alex Flinn

But I am old now; my life is older. When I made the choice I made, I did not think it was forever. It is another thing to give up so young. ~ Alex Flinn

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore... ~ Alex Flinn

I got myself there. No one does anything for me.
So I know when I meet the right guy, it's not going to be someone like my dad. It's not going to be someone who needs me. It's going to be someone who can, for once in my life, be a hero.
I'm hoping guys like that still exist. ~ Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? ~ Alex Flinn

Will, you look like hell!" I yelled through the glass door.
"I can't say how you look," he said. "But if you look like you sound, you look like a jerk. Please help me. ~ Alex Flinn

True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. ~ Alex Flinn