Flinn Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

I'm a woman; in so many ways I've been programmed to please. I took the job and spent time hunkered over figures, budgets, charts, and fiscal-year projections. I tried, but I hated it.
"Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say. He was right. I felt imprisoned by an impressive title, travel, perks, and a good salary. On the inside, I was miserable and lonely, and I felt as if I was losing myself. I spent weekends working on reports no one read, and I gave presentations that I didn't care about. It made me feel like a sellout and, worse, a fraud.
Now set free, like any inmate I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life. — Kathleen Flinn

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

I remember, now, how to cry. — Alex Flinn

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

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

You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life. — Alex Flinn

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

His brown eyes are intoxicating, and in that moment, I see my escape. — Alex Flinn

Love is Never Ugly — Alex Flinn

I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am
frightened for you. — Alex Flinn

I can't go on like this — Alex Flinn

I was just ... thinking."
"That must have been quite an experience for you. — Alex Flinn

Don't grab people. Would you like it if I grabbed you? If you would like to offer assistance, ask if the person needs it. — 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 don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes. — Kathleen Flinn

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose. — 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

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

The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential. — 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 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 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

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. — Alex Flinn

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

An emperor walks with his court through many fields of roses until they come to a barren spot. There he sees one rose. "It's the most beautiful rose I've ever seen!" the emperor cries. Those walking with him point out that he'd just been through a field of similar roses. "Yes, but THIS one I can see. — Kathleen Flinn

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

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

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

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

Love does not forget! — Alex Flinn

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

Who or what is an Ipod? — Alex Flinn

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances. — Kathleen Flinn

A girl always pretends to be a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like one. — 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 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

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, unexpected things can happen. — Alex Flinn

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

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

Find something you believe in. Then, just do it. That's what matters. — Kathleen Flinn

A shoe that fits one person pinches another. — 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

This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world. — Alex Flinn

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

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

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

She's using me. And I like it. — Alex Flinn

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

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

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

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

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

When you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury
they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner. — 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

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

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

The sharper your knife, the less you cry ... for me, it also means cutting those things that get in the way of your passion and living your life the way it is meant to be lived. — Kathleen 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

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

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

Everyone can use a little beauty. — 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'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

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

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

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

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

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

In the letter he left for the coroner he had explained his reasoning (for suicide): that life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision ... Alex showed me a clipping from the Cambridge Evening News. 'Tragic Death of "Promising" Young Man.' ... The verdict of the coroner's inquest had been that Adrian Flinn (22) had killed himself 'while the balance of his mind was disturbed.' ... The law, and society, and religion all said it was impossible to be sane, healthy, and kill yourself. Perhaps those authorities feared that the suicide's reasoning might impugn the nature and value of life as organised by the state which paid the coroner? — Julian Barnes

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

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

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

Don't forget, taste, taste, taste. — Kathleen 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

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

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

What happened to romance? — 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

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 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

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