Alex Flinn Quotes & Sayings

#1. Love does not forget!

#2. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.

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#3. Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that

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#4. That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.

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#5. Surface beauty: blond hair, blue eyes" - she was looking at me - "is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see." - Kendra Hilferty

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#6. 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.

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#7. I am old as the ages and young as the dawn. Otherworldly beings cannot be bribed.

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#8. Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.

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#9. Sometimes, I stay up all night reading book after book, for I have no family to object, and when I wake in the morning, slumped over a table or fallen off a chair, back aching, cold because no one thought to cover me with a blanket or tell me to come to bed, I feel very fortunate." Silence

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

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#11. 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.

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#12. This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world.

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

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#14. You ever think that school dances are a form of legalized prostitution?

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#15. Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!

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#16. I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

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#17. Who or what is an Ipod?

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#18. She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.

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#19. I'm starting to loose touch with reality, but reality sort of sucks.

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#20. The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was dead.

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#21. 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.

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#22. I am living my death, little by little, each day.

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#23. 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

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#24. There're all kinds of magic in the world.

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#25. 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.

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#26. Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.

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#27. A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.

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#28. 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.

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#29. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

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#30. Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

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#31. The thing about Sarah was, she always did what I wanted her to do. Always. And that was because she was me, and I was her. She never disappointed me. She always showed up. Wyatt disappointed me precisely because he was real. He was a real boy who could not climb my tower in the slippery rain.

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#32. I'm a bat, want to see me fly?

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#33. I can't go back and wait and wait ... if [he] isn't going to come.

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#34. You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most ... you are beastly.

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#35. To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon ... Your greatest fear.

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#36. I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.

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#37. Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, really, to make the villains ugly? And how realistic? In my experience, it was usually the pretty people who were mean to the ugly ones, not the other way.

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#38. It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.

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#39. I only came to give you a second chance.

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#40. The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.

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#41. Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.

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#42. I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am
frightened for you.

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#43. I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.

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#44. A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

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#45. Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.

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#46. I glances at Sloane, who was having a joyous reunion with fifty close friends she hadn't seen since yesterday.

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#47. Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.

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#48. 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.

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#49. I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

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#50. I am a princess. I do not follow fashions
I make them.

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#51. Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love.

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#52. But Adrian, sometimes it's nice to let her be smart too.

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#53. Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants ... not that you're ...
Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you're ahead
Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant.

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#54. Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?

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#55. I try not to. I mean, you shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?

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#56. 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?

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#57. - It's been going so well. We have a wonderful time in class, and I can feel the chemistry between you.
- That's because it's chemistry class.

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#58. She leans against me, head against my shoulders, and in that second, I know, against the lights and the bright and the heat and the gray, I really want to kiss her.

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#59. Then Jack takes me in his arms, and although I am still distraught, I cannot help but notice how well I fit in them, my head perfectly right for the crook of his neck.

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#60. Wow hav u read beastly its really awesome i mean u wont want 2 put it down ever

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#61. Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

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#62. 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.

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#63. If you're not a hero, does that make you a villain?

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#64. 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.

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#65. Now that all the beauty of my old life is gone, I crave it like good. A beautiful thing like this rose: I almost want to eat it, to swallow it whole to replace the beauty I've lost.

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#66. I can't go on like this

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#67. It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.

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#68. I knew something about loneliness, knew what it was to sit in my room, checking my phone for texts that never came, logging onto Facebook to see other people's statuses, happy statuses indicating their lives had gone on while mine hadn't.

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#69. Surface beauty ... is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's harder to see.

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#70. You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life.

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#71. But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and one time she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

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#72. But now it all floods back - the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her

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#73. There was no movie ending. There was only ending.

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

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#75. What happened to romance?

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#76. 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.

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#77. 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.

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#78. 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.

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#79. I'm a girl. Every girl pretends she's a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. And I like the idea of 'happily ever after.

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#80. 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.

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#81. It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.

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#82. You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you ...

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#83. She's using me. And I like it.

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#84. 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.

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

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#86. Yeah, but where I come from, we have lights at night." "We do, too. They are called stars. They are quite romantic.

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#87. This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

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#88. 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.

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