“Listen.” The voice is extremely loud, and I am forced to hold the telephone away from my ear.
“I don’t know who you are, or why you have Jack’s phone, but he is my boyfriend, and—”
Boyfriend? What is a boyfriend? Perhaps it is something like a beau.
“Is he engaged to you, then?” I hope not.
“What? No. Of course not.”
“Oh, what a relief. He is my true love, and you do not sound very nice.”
“What? Listen, you . . .”
And then, strangely enough, she calls me a female dog.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage until he finds you.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“What are you, in love with her?" Travis says. "You're staring like an idiot."
The weird thing is, I think I am.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“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.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Who or what is an Ipod?”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“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.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“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.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“A boy admiring a pretty girl. A rare thing to be certain. But love—true love—is something else.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“This is where he should say that he is in love with me, that I have changed his life and that he loves me for it. But he doesn't. Is it because he is shy? Or because he is too young to say such a thing? Or is it merely because he does not love me? The worst of it is, I am falling in love with him.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“What they don´t tell you about Europe is how completely lame it is.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Yeah, but where I come from, we have lights at night." "We do, too. They are called stars. They are quite romantic.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“I learned that it is possible to make conversation with anyone, if you figure out what they wish to discuss.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon... Your greatest fear.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“I am a prisoner of love.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“I am living my death, little by little, each day.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“you desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“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.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Even in my time, we knew that men were not in
charge. Oh, they might bluster as if they were. But when it came down to it, we women bore much of the influence. Often, my father would make some grand pronouncement in the evening. And the next morning, he had changed his mind. After a while, I realized that it was my mother who had changed it, quietly, in the night.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Then Jack takes me in his arms, and although I am still distraught, I cannot help but notice how well I fit in them, my head perfectly right for the crook of his neck.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“Then what is there for you? What is there for you if he does not love you?" Nothing.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“but now it all floods back—the euphoria of loving her, the agony that she's leaving, that i'll lose her”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“I'm a better person when I'm with you. I don't want to stop being that person. I don't want you to go”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
“I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice.”
― Alex Flinn, quote from A Kiss in Time
Alex Flinn
Born place: in Glen Cove, New York, The United States
Born date October 23, 2018
See more on GoodReads
“love you…all of you. Even your scars.”
― Meredith Wild, quote from Hard Limit
“È senza dubbio una disgrazia per un uomo che deve procurarsi da vivere, nascere con una natura realmente nobile. Un animo elevato condurrà un uomo all’ospizio di mendicità.”
― Thomas Hardy, quote from A Pair of Blue Eyes
“Tibet has not yet been infested by the worst disease of modern life, the everlasting rush. No one overworks here. Officials have an easy life. They turn up at the office late in the morning and leave for their homes early in the afternoon. If an official has guests or any other reason for not coming, he just sends a servant to a colleague and asks him to officiate for him.
Women know nothing about equal rights and are quite happy as they are. They spend hours making up their faces, restringing their pearl necklaces, choosing new material for dresses, and thinking how to outshine Mrs. So-and-so at the next party. They do not have to bother about housekeeping, which is all done by the servants. But to show that she is mistress the lady of the house always carries a large bunch of keys around with her. In Lhasa every trifling object is locked up and double-locked.
Then there is mah-jongg. At one time this game was a universal passion. People were simply fascinated by it and played it day and night, forgetting everything else—official duties, housekeeping, the family. The stakes were often very high and everyone played—even the servants, who sometimes contrived to lose in a few hours what they had taken years to save. Finally the government found it too much of a good thing. They forbade the game, bought up all the mah-jongg sets, and condemned secret offenders to heavy fines and hard labor. And they brought it off! I would never have believed it, but though everyone moaned and hankered to play again, they respected the prohibition. After mah-jongg had been stopped, it became gradually evident how everything else had been neglected during the epidemic. On Saturdays—the day of rest—people now played chess or halma, or occupied themselves harmlessly with word games and puzzles.”
― Heinrich Harrer, quote from Seven Years in Tibet (Paladin Books)
“Pero no olvide tampoco que lo primero que se aprende en el Ejército es a ser hombres. Los hombres fuman, se emborrachan, tiran contra, culean. Los cadetes saben que, si son descubiertos, se les expulsa. Ya han salido varios. Para hacerse hombre hay que correr riesgo, hay que ser audaz. Eso es el Ejército, Gamboa, no sólo la disciplina.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, quote from The Time of the Hero
“It was only natural that the intellectuals who questioned the necessity of American purpose did not rush from Cambridge and New Haven to inflict their doubts about American power and goals upon the nation’s policies. So people like Riesman, classic intellectuals, stayed where they were while the new breed of thinkers-doers, half of academe, half of the nation’s think tanks and of policy planning, would make the trip, not doubting for a moment the validity of their right to serve, the quality of their experience. They were men who reflected the post-Munich, post-McCarthy pragmatism of the age. One had to stop totalitarianism, and since the only thing the totalitarians understood was force, one had to be willing to use force. They justified each decision to use power by their own conviction that the Communists were worse, which justified our dirty tricks, our toughness.”
― David Halberstam, quote from The Best and the Brightest
Love Bites
Rumors
Out for Blood
Unraveling
Bound by Flames
NogginBookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, memorable and interesting quotes from great books. As the world communicates more and more via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become more relevant and important. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a philosophy by which we live. For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book and to carry with us the author’s best ideas.
We thoughtfully gather quotes from our favorite books, both classic and current, and choose the ones that are most thought-provoking. Each quote represents a book that is interesting, well written and has potential to enhance the reader’s life. We also accept submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to the BookQuoters community.
Founded in 2023, BookQuoters has quickly become a large and vibrant community of people who share an affinity for books. Books are seen by some as a throwback to a previous world; conversely, gleaning the main ideas of a book via a quote or a quick summary is typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. We feel that we have the best of both worlds at BookQuoters; we read books cover-to-cover but offer you some of the highlights. We hope you’ll join us.
