Parents always forgive you. Like sometimes, you see parents on the news, and their kid just got busted for murdering a 7-11 clerk, and they’re like, ‘But my Bubba’s a good boy. He’d never hurt a fly.’ So I’m sure your parents would forgive you for whatever you did.

— Alex Flinn

Alex Flinn Quotes

I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read.

— 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

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

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

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

— Alex Flinn

Everyone can use a little beauty.

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

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Romance

A shoe that fits one person pinches another.

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

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

— 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

It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.

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Control is part of faking it.

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When I’m with you, I don’t feel ugly at all.

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Before she came here, she’d thought she could be independent. Now, she knew she could – but only if she had the help of others and was able to help them in return.

— 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 is who I am. This is what I love. This is who I am. I know that I can do it, and it’s what I want to do more than anything. And I realize I have to do anything I can to make it happen, even if it means leaving other things behind.

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

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Sometimes, things change so quickly you don’t even know how it happened.

— Alex Flinn

Kate realized all these girls were strange in their own way. Maybe everyone was.

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