Elle Strauss > Quotes

“I lock onto his beautiful blue eyes, memorizing his face. The way his eyes crinkle at the corners when he laughs, the way they flash blue when he's happy and grow dark when he's sad. I'll miss his flop of dark hair and his dimples when he smiles.”
― Elle Strauss, Love, Tink

“A fairy's heart is a mysterious thing.”
― Elle Strauss, Love, Tink

“For instance, my hair is the unmanageable kind of curly, the color of burnt toast. Imagine waking up every morning looking like the Lion King, or having to spend a disproportionate amount of your allowance on hair products that don’t deliver. Like the ones under my bathroom sink. Row after row of half-empty containers of mousse, gel, and hair tamer standing dejectedly like the third string of a basketball team that rarely gets to play.”
― Lee (Elle) Strauss, Clockwise

“Peter flashes an impish grin, the kind that turns up slightly on one side as he tilts his head. The action that makes produces dimples and makes me swoon.”
― Elle Strauss, Love, Tink

“Women who don’t recognize their own beauty are the most attractive of them all.”
― Elle Strauss, Clockwise

“My only regret is that it took a dare to get me to dance with you.”
― Elle Strauss, Clockwise

“Confession: Nate was intoxicating.”
― Elle Strauss, Clockwise

“I spent New Year’s at Lucinda’s for our annual, current-celebrity movie/TV series-sleepover marathon. We’d done this together every year since eighth grade, because neither of us ever got invited to the cool parties. Previous years had featured Zac Efron, Orlando Bloom, Robert Pattison and Brad Pitt (even though he’s kind of old, he’s still, well, wow).”
― Elle Strauss, Clockwise

“Anyone with eyes can see you were born beautiful.”
― Lee (Elle) Strauss, Clockwise

“Weird. I was almost a witness to my own father’s birth. Hmm, not sure how I felt about that.”
― Elle Strauss, Clockwise