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Category: Alex Flinn

The whole thing was like a divorce. When we divided everything up, Courtney got my dignity, and I got the heartache.

friendship-lost, heartbreak

We sit, silent, the comfortable way only good friends can sit.

companionship, friendship, silence

I can’t go on like this

anger, depressions, frustration

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. “Fuck.” Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.

emotional, painful, sad

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

alex-flinn, beastly, books, friendship, loneliness, reading

I just knew. There was no movie ending. There was only an ending.

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

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

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, maybe hit someone. Ever feel like you’re breathing underwater, and you have to stop because you’re gulping in too much fluid?

choking, metaphor, symbol

A memory came to me. One time, in middle school, a famous author came to talk to our class and give a writing workshop. One of the things she told us about writing a novel was that the story should be about what the main character wants. Dorothy wants to go home to Kansas. George Milton wants a farm of his own. Amelia Sedley wants to marry her darling George and live happily ever after. The end of the story, according to the famous author, is when the character either gests what he wants or realizes he’s never going to get it. Or sometimes, she said, like Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With the Wind, realizes she doesn’t actually want what she thought she wanted all along. pg. 324 of Bewitching

alex-flinn, bewitching, want

Sometimes, unexpected things can happen.

reality-of-life

Shakespeare’s great.”Duh. Shakespeare’s cool, man.

beastly, shakespeare