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Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1) QUOTES

Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1) QUOTES

1 " Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

2 " But there’s a part of me that wonders what it would be like to be the most important person to someone else, to always feel like you were missing a piece of yourself when he wasn’t near you. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

3 " Isn’t that what true romance is supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night.Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

4 " I realize that I quite like this girl. It’s not just that she’s so pretty the words fly out of my mind before they can leave my mouth—it’s that when we’re chatting, I feel like I’ve known her all my life. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

5 " This must be what an addict feels like, I think,
trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

6 " Was that all it took to be brave? Knowing that someone believed in you? "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

7 " ...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. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

8 " I sigh. “But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . .” My voice trails off.
“Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy?” Oliver asks gently. “Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you? "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

9 " Isn’t that what true romance is
supposed to be about? Finding the person who’s your soul mate. Someone you dream about at night. Someone whose name is on your lips when you wake up in the morning. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

10 " Home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

11 " At that moment, Oliver realized that home is not a place, but rather, the people who love you. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

12 " [Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.”
“Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events.
“So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.”
“Huh?” I say. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

13 " And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath timed to hers, so that his blood sang.
This is why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn’t have words big enough to describe them. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

14 " 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? "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

15 " When you have been burned by fire once, you don't leap into the flames again. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

16 " The act of reading is a partnership. The author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

17 " 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. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

18 " Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

19 " Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)

20 " Marina sighs. "Love's a tidal wave," she says. "Because it sweeps you off your feet?" I ask. "No. Because it sucks you under and you drown. "

― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)