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81 " You keep distracting me,” I tell her.“All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!”“Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j "
― Jodi Picoult , Between the Lines (Between the Lines, #1)
82 " 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 with the world stems from the fact that she's stopped believing the impossible can happen? "
83 " 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)
84 " 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? "
85 " 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. "
86 " Men. You can't live with them... you can't legally drown them. "
87 " 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. "
88 " 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. "
89 " 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. "
90 " 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? "
91 " I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens. "
92 " Just so you know, when they say "Once upona time” . . . they’re lying "
93 " I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me "
94 " 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.""But sometimes," I point out, "it's the only thing that keeps you afloat. "
95 " I'm weird.Everyone says so. "
96 " What if instead of focusing on what you don't have, you concentrate on what you've got? "
97 " Here I am, wasting away inside a book I wish I could escape, and all she wants to do is stay in the story. If I could talk to this girl Delilah, I’d ask her why on earth she would ever trade a single second of the world she’s in for the one in which I’m stuck "
98 " You can't be real," Delilah murmurs. "Says who?" I ask. "Did you really think that a story exists only when you're reading it? "
99 " Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs? "
100 " People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?"I look away from her. "It's hardly a happily ever after when you wind up right at the beginning. "