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This isn't a fairy tale. It's New York City.

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Alex Flinn
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: October 23
Novelist
Writer
New York City
New York
Alexandra Flinn
Fairy
Tales
York
City
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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.
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I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
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A shoe that fits one person pinches another.
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Seem like a lot of people wear shoes they can't walk in.
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Maybe you actually do need to face obstacles with someone to know that they're the one you'd sacrifice for.
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That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.
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What happened to romance? Sappy, soppy longhand love letters.
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I wrote poetry, journals, and, especially, plays for the neighborhood kids to perform. I had an ordinary, happy childhood. Nothing much was going on, but I had fun.
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Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
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Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
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I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.
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I have a great deal of empathy for anyone who's having a hard time. I believe this ability to see another's viewpoint has served me well as a writer.
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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.
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Anyone else feel like that? Like your life's a big act. Like you're trying to be a man when you're just a scared kid, trying to keep under control when you really want to scream, cry, or maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you're breathing underwater and you have to stop because you're gulping in too much fluid.
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The magic is over, but its effects will live forever.
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You shouldn't miss someone who don't miss you, right?
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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.
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It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
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