Alex Flinn Quotes

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.

when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.

It's easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don't think about.

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

What happened to romance? sappy soppy longhand love letters.

He bursts into tears, and not some manlike tears either, where you pretend you're brushing something off your face and, incidentally, wipe a tear. Nope. He starts bawling like a kid who spilled his Slushie...

Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

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

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly.

People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don´t even notice anymore...

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.

It hurts too much so I don't want to talk about it.

But it's not enough. I don't look human. If I went outside, people would scream at the sight of me. Looks matter to most people. That's reality in the world."

"Not my world."

I petted Pilot. "I like your world, Will, but it doesn't have a very big population. I'm going to let her go.