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1 " Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less. That way, you'll never be dissapointed. "
― Samantha van Leer , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
2 " Real fairy tales are not for the faint hearted. In them, children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall into comas and are tortured by evil relatives. Somehow, all that pain and suffering is worthwhile, though, when it leads to the ending: happily ever after. Suddenly it no longer matters if you got a B- on your midterm in French or if you're the only girl in the school who doesn't have a date for the spring formal. Happily ever after trumps everything. But what if ever after could change? "
3 " It turns out there's something even harder than not being able to be with the person you love when you're happy: not being able to comfort her when she's sad. "
4 " Men. You can't live with them... you can't legally drown them. "
5 " He understood, in that crystalline instant, that courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more. "
6 " No thanks; I'd much rather pretend I'm somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. "
― Samantha van Leer
7 " Marina sighs, "Love's a tidal wave," she says."Because it sweeps you off you feet?" I ask."No. Because it sucks you under and you drown.""But sometimes," I point out, "It's the only thing that keeps you afloat. "
8 " I'm not like most characters, I guess. Everyone else in here seems to be happy having their lives already planned out for them, and doing what they're told to do. But I've never really fit in. I've always wondered what it would be like to be someone... different. "
9 " I'm weird. Everyone says so. I suppose it'because while other fifteen-year-olds are talking about the best lip gloss or which movie star is hotter, I would rather be curled up with a book. "
10 " No one ever asks a kid her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen? "
11 " No one ever asks a kid for her opinion, but it seems to me that growing up means you stop hoping for the best, and start expecting the worst. So how do you tell an adult that maybe everything wrong in the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen? "
12 " She believes in me, and if someone believes in you wholeheartedly, you start to believe in yourself. "
― Samantha van Leer , Off the Page (Between the Lines, #2)
