Top 60 Alex Flinn Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It hurts too much so I don’t want to talk about it.”

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2. “Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.”

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3. “Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.”

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

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5. “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...”

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6. “I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who’s having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another’s viewpoint has served me well as a writer.”

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7. “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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8. “This has been a crazy day, a crazy week, a crazy world.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “Love is Never Ugly.”

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11. “A beautiful thing is precious no matter the price.”

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12. “You shouldn’t miss someone who don’t miss you, right?”

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

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

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

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

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17. “Maybe we judge people too much by their looks because it’s easier than seeing what’s really important.”

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18. “She wanted to leave. I loved her too much to make her stay.”

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19. “I enjoy people who aren’t afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!”

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20. “People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don’t even notice anymore...”

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21. “I am not frightened of you Kyle. I am frightened for you.”

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22. “Magic. It was magic, and the magic is called love.”

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

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24. “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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25. “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.”

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26. “Don’t grab people. Would you like it if I grabbed you? If you would like to offer assistance, ask if the person needs it.”

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27. “Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can’t walk in.”

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28. “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.”

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29. “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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30. “You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, i bet you wouldn’t be smart enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly.”

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31. “A shoe that fits one person pinches another.”

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32. “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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33. “Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they’re the one you’d sacrifice for.”

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34. “Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, really, to make the villains ugly? And how realistic? In my experience, it was usually the pretty people who were mean to the ugly ones, not the other way.”

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35. “Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite.”

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36. “I wish to go with you, not as man and wife, but merely as friends, travel companions, the sort of happy-go-lucky chums about whom rollicking old ballads of the road are written.”

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37. “Retribution. Poetic justice. Just deserts. Comeuppance.”

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38. “Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!”

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

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40. “It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.”

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

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

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43. “Any experience that isn’t fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.”

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44. “Everyone can use a little beauty.”

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45. “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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46. “Control is part of faking it.”

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47. “Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?”

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48. “I took a punch at one of the rosebushes. It got its revenge by stabbing me in the hand.”

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

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50. “Good to know: Doctors can’t cure you of being a beast.”

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