Beastly Quotes

“So I said, "I'll miss you. You are the truest friend I've ever had."

I could see that my words were a knife in his gut. Yet, it seemed kinder than the alternative, for him to know I love him, but that I'm leaving anyway.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“Money sure does fix things, doesn't it? Except for things that can't be fixed.

Like broken hearts.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I was a prisoner, but the prison library was excellent.
On one table in the corner, I found an e-reader with a note that said, “In case I forgot anything.”
I don’t like to think I can be bought, but if I could, this guy definitely knew the currency. Roses and books—I could survive in these rooms forever.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I can see into his soul, and it is beautiful.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I try not to. I mean, you shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“The notebook smelled the way old books do, like dust and unrealized potential.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“It’s intriguing. I’ve always felt like a freak myself. But what would it be like, to wear my freakishness on the outside, to have it be obvious to the world?”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I knew something about loneliness, knew what it was to sit in my room, checking my phone for texts that never came, logging onto Facebook to see other people's statuses, happy statuses indicating their lives had gone on while mine hadn't.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“The days after that, I felt so many different things, sad, angry. Guilty, but for the mostly just numb, like part of me was dead.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“Sometimes you wonder when your handsome prince is going to show up and rescue you.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“You shouldn't miss people who don't miss you, right?”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I'm starting to loose touch with reality, but reality sort of sucks.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I inhaled again. Probably better to dream.
The rest of the night, I took tickets and picked up discarded cups and tried not to pay attention to Kyle laughing, Kyle talking, Kyle being crowned dance royalty. I mean, it's too pathetic to be stalking the popular guy. But I enjoyed watching him. He was so opposite the way I was, so full of life and energy, and yet, I knew he and I were alike deep down. Deep down, we were both lonely. He was just better at hiding it.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“Leaves. Hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of them, brown and yellow and red and orange, in bright piles on the concrete floor. Some were so high they almost covered the rosebushes.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“I got myself there. No one does anything for me.
So I know when I meet the right guy, it's not going to be someone like my dad. It's not going to be someone who needs me. It's going to be someone who can, for once in my life, be a hero.
I'm hoping guys like that still exist.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“... To see Kyle, to wave to him, like getting off at the 79th street station, near where Kyle lives, instead of going all the way to the Lincoln Center station near school, so I can grab coffee and watch him walk by before I, too, walk on to Tuttle, about fifty feet behind him.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary

“It was like we were two halves of an oyster shell, and when you put us together, it hid the gray gunk inside.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly: Lindy's Diary