Quotes from 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.

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.

Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.

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

By the time Vizzini fell over, dead, I'd finished my popcorn and put the bag down. I wanted some more. It seemed like the beast was always hungry. I wondered, if I was transformed back, would I be fat?

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.

Maybe the crazy people are the only ones who know the truth.

There're all kinds of magic in the world.

Adults . . . they're like this messy tangle of anger and phobias and sadness . . . hopelessness.

That's what true love should be like–the person should be part of your soul...

Cette fleur parfaite, j'ai presque envie de la manger, de l'avaler pour remplacer la beauté que j'ai perdue.

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.

But usually, I watched Linda read. I couldn't believe she'd read so much in summer! Sometimes she laughed, reading her book, and once she even cried. I didn't know how anyone could make such a big deal about books.

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

I tell him the ugly duckling grew up to be a huge asshole." "Why?

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.

I'm starting to loose touch with reality, but reality sort of sucks.

You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?

she danced in the shadowy moonlight, and it felt good to be bad for once, really bad and get away with it, good to be someone else.

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

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us, but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trup.

This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world.

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

You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you...