Top 35 Laurie Elizabeth Flynn Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “After all, lies that make other people feel better must be kind of okay.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

2. “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

3. “Always lift your chin up high when you did something wrong. Because you might know you did something wrong, but nobody else has to.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

4. “I know that it’s better this way, being the one in control. The one in control calls the shots, and the one in control sets the pace. Most important of all, the one in control doesn’t get hurt.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

5. “I smile, bigger than I’m sure I ever have before, and his lips are on mine, and if this isn’t the best kind of chemistry, I don’t know what is.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

6. “I can control what happens in the chemistry lab. There’s a formula and an equation, and I know exactly what the reaction will be when I mix one thing with another. Life, not so much. Love, not at all. No matter what elements you combine, you really have no idea what happens next. It’s scary not knowing what comes next. But not knowing might also be the best part.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

7. “I feel the need to fill the silence, like it’s my fault it’s even awkward in the first place.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

8. “It’s funny how giving up control can actually end up putting things back in place. But that’s what I’m learning, that too much of something ends up yielding the opposite reaction.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

9. “Faye closes the inch between us. “Snow angels are vastly overrated,” she says. “And you could never be just a number.” I’m close enough to smell her lip gloss, something fruity and sweet. My heart slams against my ribs. She’s going to kiss me, right here in the bathroom. I was right. I wasn’t making it all up in my head. She likes me. She wants me.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

10. “I don’t want to be the girl he dates senior year and loses interest in when he goes off to college. I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won’t ever have to see his retreating back.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

11. “The one in control calls the shots, and the one in control sets the pace. Most important of all, the one in control doesn’t get hurt.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

12. “Fireworks don’t just happen. They need to be carefully arranged and then ignited slowly.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

13. “Because you were everything. You weren’t one night, one experience I had to record for proof that it happened. You were so much more than that. I didn’t write about you because I took it for granted that I would always have you.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

14. “I sound like a monster, like somebody who doesn’t care about anyone but myself. Maybe I am.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

15. “People don’t have a standard reaction. People aren’t a chemistry experiment you can tinker with until the proportions are just right. People are terrifying that way.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

16. “Baggy pants, baggy eyes – anything baggy is the enemy.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

17. “I don’t know how Angela will react to that, and this is why it’s so hard telling the truth. People don’t have a standard reaction. People aren’t a chemistry experiment you can tinker with until the proportions are just right. People are terrifying that way.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

18. “Some people don’t need to put a label on relationships.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

19. “Remember all the times you told me no? All the times you brushed me off when I tried to make you my girlfriend? I stuck around after that. And I’m sticking around now. You can’t get rid of me that easily.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

20. “The more friends you have, the higher your chance of taking a knife in your back.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

21. “Next Wednesday is part of our routine, another chance to spend lunch hour doing it somewhere else in Kim’s immaculate house. Maybe on the white leather couch next time, the one she loves too much to even let me sit on.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

22. “Maybe trust is the brake I’m looking for.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

23. “And her smile isn’t fake. It’s open and loving and I know she probably smiles like that at everybody, but it feels like that smile was meant just for me.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

24. “I want to be just fast enough for Zach to have to run to catch up, because if I stay ahead, I won’t ever have to see his retreating back.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

25. “I feel fragile, like if somebody looked at me the wrong way I might shatter into a million pieces and never be whole again.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

26. “I feel like the world just moves too fast for me to keep up.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

27. “We’re all allowed to have one little secret.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

28. “Friendship is an undiluted solution, something weakened by adding more to it.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

29. “She could probably be beautiful, if she wanted to be. But maybe she wants to be something more. Good for her. I’m sick of the world telling us we have to be pretty in addition to everything else we already are. I’m sick of playing into it.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

30. “Everyone says boys will be boys, but girls? Girls will be monsters.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

31. “When you’re a girl, you have to scream to get anybody’s attention. And even then, all they want you to do is shut up.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

32. “I turned into a monster, but the world knows exactly how to make monsters out of girls who want what they can’t have.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

33. “She thought good things happened to good people. I know that girls are exempt from this logic. Good alone gets us nowhere.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

34. “People thought girls’ bodies were our deadliest weapons. They had no idea about the mountains our imaginations could move.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

35. “She talked about guys like they were toys. But her favorite playthings were the girls.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

36. “Maybe that was why most of the girls I knew were miserable. We prioritized everyone else’s happiness over our own.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

37. “There was a danger in being too soft in a world that required a protective coating.”

— Laurie Elizabeth Flynn