Alex Flinn Quotes

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

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  Girl, Princess, Life Is Like

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• 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, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.

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  Kids, Men, Breathing

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

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  People, Judging, Important

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

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  Moving, Things In Life, Time To Move On

  Alex Flinn (2015). “Four Beastly Kendra Chronicles Collection: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching, Mirrored”, p.74, HarperCollins

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• 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.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Love You

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

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  Rose, Forever, Inner Beauty

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• I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.

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  Fashion, Princess

  Alex Flinn (2009). “A Kiss in Time”, p.12, Harper Collins

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

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  Doctors, Beast, Cures

  Alex Flinn (2014). “Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching”, p.50, Harper Collins

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

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  New York, Cities, Fairy Tale

  Alex Flinn (2014). “Three Beastly Kendra Chronicles: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• 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 . . .

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  Children, Mean, Ideas

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• 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 in Euphrasia until he finds you.

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  True Love, Looks, Cottages

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• Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

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  Unexpected, Sometimes, Unexpected Things

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• What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.

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  Romance, Letters, Beastly

  "Fictional character: Lindy". "Beastly", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price

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  Beautiful, Matter, Beastly

  Alex Flinn (2009). “Beastly”, p.23, Harper Collins

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

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  Forever, Magic, Live Forever

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• You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?

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  Missing Someone, Missing

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• Everyone can use a little beauty.

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  Use, Littles

  Alex Flinn (2015). “Four Beastly Kendra Chronicles Collection: Beastly, Lindy's Diary, Bewitching, Mirrored”, p.73, HarperCollins

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

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  Mean, People, Easier

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

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  Years, Law, Different

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• 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.

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  People, Making Friends, Shy

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

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  Fun, Writing, Use

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• 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.

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  Stars, Writing, Ambition

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• 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.

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  Book, Thinking, Viewpoints

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• 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.

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  Fun, Kids, Play

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, People, Stories

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