Alex Flinn Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for. — 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 remember, now, how to cry. — 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

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

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

Love is Never Ugly — 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

I am a prisoner of love. — Alex Flinn

I can't go on like this — Alex Flinn

Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you. — 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

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. — Alex Flinn

Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy. — Alex Flinn

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

Then what is there for you? What is there for you if he does not love you? Nothing. — 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

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

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose. — 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'm here, my love,"... — 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

I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent.
On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a note that said, "In case I forgot anything."
I don't like to think I can be bought, but if I could, this guy definitely knew the currency. Roses and books - I could survive in these rooms forever. — Alex Flinn

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

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

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

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

People are very fearful these days. — Alex Flinn

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

I'm starting to loose touch with reality, but reality sort of sucks. — Alex Flinn

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

- 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

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

I want to go back to bed. but i don't just want to go back to bed. — 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

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

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

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

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

Control is part of faking it — Alex Flinn

Money sure does fix things, doesn't it? Except for things that can't be fixed.
Like broken hearts. — Alex Flinn

Shakespeare's great."
Duh. Shakespeare's cool, man. — 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

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

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

I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss. — 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

I am old as the ages and young as the dawn. Otherworldly beings cannot be bribed. — Alex Flinn

We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit. — Alex Flinn

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

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

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

Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance. — 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

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

Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite. — Alex Flinn

Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in. — Alex Flinn

I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer. — 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

What happened to romance? — 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

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away. — Alex Flinn

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

I enjoy people who aren't afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier! — Alex Flinn

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

I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice. — Alex Flinn

What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters. — 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

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

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

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

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

But this girl isn't just beautiful. She's perfect in a way that's unreal — Alex Flinn

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

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

I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending. — Alex Flinn

Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast. — 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

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

Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples? — Alex Flinn

I wanted to preserve this moment, this slice of time when the night was cool and bright with reflected moonlight and the possibility of a kiss hung between us, full of unspent promise. Every event in my life after this would be different because I would have been kissed. — Alex Flinn

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

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

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

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. — Alex Flinn

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. — Alex Flinn

I inhaled again. Probably better to dream.
The rest of the night, I took tickets and picked up discarded cups and tried not to pay attention to Kyle laughing, Kyle talking, Kyle being crowned dance royalty. I mean, it's too pathetic to be stalking the popular guy. But I enjoyed watching him. He was so opposite the way I was, so full of life and energy, and yet, I knew he and I were alike deep down. Deep down, we were both lonely. He was just better at hiding it. — Alex Flinn

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. — Alex Flinn

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

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

A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love-true love-is something else. — Alex Flinn

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