Top 100 Flinn Quotes
#1. But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for, Miss Ratched? What possible motive ... ?"
"You seem to forget, MISS Flinn, that this is an institution for the insane.
Ken Kesey
#3. What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot."
The weird thing is, I think I am.
Alex Flinn
#4. 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.
Alex Flinn
#5. I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!
Alex Flinn
#6. 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
#7. Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that
Alex Flinn
#8. 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.
Alex Flinn
#9. 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
Alex Flinn
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. I am old as the ages and young as the dawn. Otherworldly beings cannot be bribed.
Alex Flinn
#13. Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.
Alex Flinn
#14. I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?
Alex Flinn
#15. Then what is there for you? What is there for you if he does not love you? Nothing.
Alex Flinn
#16. 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
Alex Flinn
#17. The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.
Alex Flinn
#18. 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
#19. This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world.
Alex Flinn
#20. I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
Alex Flinn
#21. 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
#22. You ever think that school dances are a form of legalized prostitution?
Alex Flinn
#23. Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!
Alex Flinn
#24. I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.
Alex Flinn
#25. It's intriguing. I've always felt like a freak myself. But what would it be like, to wear my freakishness on the outside, to have it be obvious to the world?
Alex Flinn
#26. So what if I cannot be a model, if I am no longer considered beautiful, if Malvolia is trying to catch me. I am climbing a tree! And I am doing so with Jack.
Alex Flinn
#28. She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.
Alex Flinn
#29. True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.
Alex Flinn
#30. Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)
Kathleen Flinn
#32. When you've found out that the person you love loves you, you can't
delay. You have to hurry.
Alex Flinn
#33. I'm starting to loose touch with reality, but reality sort of sucks.
Alex Flinn
#34. 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.
Alex Flinn
#35. People are very fearful these days.
Alex Flinn
#36. A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one.
Alex Flinn
#37. 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
#38. I am living my death, little by little, each day.
Alex Flinn
#39. 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
Alex Flinn
#40. There're all kinds of magic in the world.
Alex Flinn
#41. 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
#42. Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
Alex Flinn
#43. A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else.
Alex Flinn
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.
Alex Flinn
#47. Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.
Alex Flinn
#48. 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.
Alex Flinn
#50. I can't go back and wait and wait ... if [he] isn't going to come.
Alex Flinn
#51. You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most ... you are beastly.
Alex Flinn
#52. I was just ... thinking."
"That must have been quite an experience for you.
Alex Flinn
#53. 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
#54. To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon ... Your greatest fear.
Alex Flinn
#55. 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.
Alex Flinn
#56. 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.
Alex Flinn
#57. We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.
Alex Flinn
#58. It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.
Alex Flinn
#59. It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
Alex Flinn
#60. I took a punch at one of the rosebushes. It got its revenge by stabbing me in the hand.
Alex Flinn
#61. But this girl isn't just beautiful. She's perfect in a way that's unreal
Alex Flinn
#62. If I didn't believe, there would be nothing left.
Alex Flinn
#63. I only came to give you a second chance.
Alex Flinn
#64. The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.
Alex Flinn
#65. Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.
Alex Flinn
#66. I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes and the stars though his soul" - Victor Hugo
Alex Flinn
#67. Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.
Alex Flinn
#68. 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
#69. I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am
frightened for you.
Alex Flinn
#70. I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.
Alex Flinn
#71. A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price
Alex Flinn
#72. Sometimes it also helps to have a bit less pride.
Alex Flinn
#73. I glances at Sloane, who was having a joyous reunion with fifty close friends she hadn't seen since yesterday.
Alex Flinn
#74. You desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.
Alex Flinn
#75. Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.
Alex Flinn
#76. 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
#77. Shakespeare's great."
Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man.
Alex Flinn
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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.
Alex Flinn
#81. I am a princess. I do not follow fashions
I make them.
Alex Flinn
#82. Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love.
Alex Flinn
#83. But Adrian, sometimes it's nice to let her be smart too.
Alex Flinn
#84. Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.
Alex Flinn
#85. 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.
Alex Flinn
#86. Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?
Alex Flinn
#87. Money sure does fix things, doesn't it? Except for things that can't be fixed.
Like broken hearts.
Alex Flinn
#88. 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
#89. I try not to. I mean, you shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?
Alex Flinn
#90. 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
#91. - 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.
Alex Flinn
#92. 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.
Alex Flinn
#93. 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.
Alex Flinn
#94. 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
#95. Wow hav u read beastly its really awesome i mean u wont want 2 put it down ever
Alex Flinn
#96. You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.
Kathleen Flinn
#97. Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
Alex Flinn
#98. 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
#99. I want to go back to bed. but i don't just want to go back to bed.
Alex Flinn
#100. 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
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