Frasi di Alex Flinn

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“Trovo che sarebbe un gran bel personaggio per un musical di Broadway," dissi ridendo, anche se non mi veniva affatto da ridere. Guardai l'orologio. Il taxi di Lindy sarebbe arrivato da un momento all'altro. Il suo pullman partiva tra un'ora. Se fossimo stati in un film, in una di quelle commedie strappalacrime, ci sarebbe stata una qualche scena drammatica in cui io sarei corso alla stazione dei pullman e l'avrei implorata di restare, e Lindy, capendo infine cosa provava per me, mi avrebbe baciato. Io mi sarei trasformato. E saremmo vissuti per sempre felici e contenti.
Nella vita reale Will mi chiede cosa ne pensassi del pensiero politico di Hugo ne I miserabili, e io gli risposi, anche se non ricordo cosa. Ma seppi l'attimo (9:42) in cui il taxi accostò sul vialetto per prenderla. La sentii arrivare alla stazione dei pullman (10:27) e seppi l'istante (11:05) in cui il pullman partì. Non guardai niente di tutto questo nello specchio. Lo sapevo e basta. Non c'era nessun lieto fine. C'era solo una fine.”

“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.”

“Talia: I was brought up to respect older people and peasants… not that you're…

Jack: (clears throat) Quit while you’re ahead

Meryl: Ahead? She just called mom and old peasant.”

“Who or what is an Ipod?”

“Love does not forget!”

“I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.”

“When you’ve found out that the person you love loves you, you can’t
delay. You have to hurry.”

“… if there´s a beast, maybe he´s just a regular guy with a sin conditon or something. Maybe he just needs some understanding. Maybe we judge people to much by their looks because it´s easier than seeing what´s really important.”

“Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.”

“Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.”

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

“You ever think that school dances are a form of legalized prostitution?”

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

“Everyone can use a little beauty.”

“Mr. Anderson:Well, maybe we all should call it a night. Congrats to the happy couples. Will there be wedding bells soon?

SnowGirl:Definitely. I mean, if you help a guy kill a dwarf, he should marry you.”

“That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.”

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

“You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.”

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

“You have to avoid thinking of what upsets you. If not, it will take over your life.”

“Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous.”
“What’s she going to have—an assault weapon?”
“Worse,” I say. “She’s got magical powers.”

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

“It's strange though. People make such a big deal about looks, but after a while, when you know someone, you don't even notice anymore, do you? It's just the way they look.”

“I love you' I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face… My fear was a greater one--that she won't say it back.”

“I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.”

“Through her jacket, I could feel her heartbeat. It made me happy to know she was alive, was real, was there.”

“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.”