A Kiss in Time Quotes

“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, 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, A Kiss in Time

“Your telephone! Your friend Travis is in it!”
― Alex Flinn, 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, 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, A Kiss in Time

“Love does not forget!”
― Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time

“I am a princess. I do not follow fashions--I make them.”
― Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time

“Who or what is an Ipod?”
― Alex Flinn, 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, A Kiss in Time

“Is it enough to be a princess, when being a princess means nothing?”
― Alex Flinn, 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, 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, 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, A Kiss in Time

“What they don´t tell you about Europe is how completely lame it is.”
― Alex Flinn, 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, A Kiss in Time

“To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon... Your greatest fear.”
― Alex Flinn, 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, A Kiss in Time

“I am living my death, little by little, each day.”
― Alex Flinn, 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, 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, A Kiss in Time

“you desire to escape. I wish to run away. I thought we might help each other.”
― Alex Flinn, 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, 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, A Kiss in Time

“Sometimes, when one communicates with others, one produces results.”
― Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time

“I am a prisoner of love.”
― Alex Flinn, 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, A Kiss in Time

“I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice.”
― Alex Flinn, A Kiss in Time

“Then what is there for you? What is there for you if he does not love you?" Nothing.”
― Alex Flinn, 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, 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, A Kiss in Time