Alex Flinn > Quotes

“Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it's easier than seeing what's really important.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“A beautiful thing is precious, no matter the price. Those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy...”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“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.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“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

“It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“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, Beastly

“... I was just... thinking."
"That must have been quite an experience for you.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“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, Beastly

“Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“Who dares disturb my roses?"
Why did I say that”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer.”
― Alex Flinn

“I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am
frightened for you.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“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 Kiss in Time

“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, Beastly

“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage until he finds you.”
― Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time

“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, Beastly

“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, Breathing Underwater

“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, Beastly

“- 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, Beastly

“Having a Coke with You

is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne
or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in Barcelona
partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better happier St. Sebastian
partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love for yoghurt
partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the birches
partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people and statuary
it is hard to believe when I’m with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o’clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just paint
you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them

I look
at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in the world
except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it’s in the Frick
which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together the first time
and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of Futurism
just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or
at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michelangelo that used to wow me

and what good does all the research of the Impressionists do them
when they never got the right person to stand near the tree when the sun sank
or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn’t pick the rider as carefully
as the horse

it seems they were all cheated of some marvelous experience
which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I am telling you about it.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“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, Beastly

“A single white roes goes with everything, doesn´t it, and it symbolizes purity.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly