Quotes from Alex Flinn

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.

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

Leaves. Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of them, brown and yellow and red and orange, in bright piles on the concrete floor. Some were so high they almost covered the rosebushes.

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.

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

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

To see Kyle, to wave to him, like getting off at the 79th street station, near where Kyle lives, instead of going all the way to the Lincoln Center station near school, so I can grab coffee and watch him walk by before I, too, walk on to Tuttle, about fifty feet behind him.

Así es como debería ser el amor verdadero, la persona amada debería ser parte de tu alma y deberías saber lo que sienten todo el tiempo.

Todo el mundo necesita belleza en su vida.

I got myself there. No one does anything for me. So I know when I meet the right guy, it's not going to be someone like my dad. It's not going to be someone who needs me. It's going to be someone who can, for once in my life, be a hero. I'm hoping guys like that still exist.

Unfair. So. Unfair. Someone says something about you, and just because they said it first—because you were trying to be nice and not complain, you're in the position of denying it

It's hard when you lose someone. I've had it happen. It changes your world, everything, but it doesn't change who you are. People who are heroes are still heroes. They may get more heroic. People who are the opposite—well, watch out.

It may not seem that way, but sometimes, things work out for the best

wondered, could someone love you if you didn't tell him the whole truth?

beautiful; I was smart, but that was never enough, never what I wanted. I was nice, and no one cared. I was a lot of things, but beautiful? Not me.

if you're hella smart, like Hawking or the other Roosevelt, maybe you can get away with not being able to use your body.

I wished it were a tidal wave, a tsunami, a hurricane that would destroy everything and carry me away

Kendra Speaks: The Story of a Mermaid Who Should Have Left Well Enough Alone I did not know what an angel was, but if it comforted him to believe me one, I saw no harm.

We are the Girls of July; Sisters of summer weather. Summer will live in our hearts When we're no longer together. Summer is always too short. Winter days are long. We will return to July When we sing this song. We'll always be together. We'll be friends forever.

There was no movie ending. There was only ending.

Surface beauty, blond hair, blue eyes is always easy to recognize. But if someone is braver, stronger, smarter, that's hard to see.

I can't go back and wait and wait...if [he] isn't going to come.

I haven't given up," I said. "I've just decided to live for my roses.

It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.