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Read Between the Lines QUOTES

Read Between the Lines QUOTES

1 " But then, as she looks at their unsuspecting, uninterested faces, she will start to think about what that really means. That just like there is more to her than what they see, there is more inside each one of them. What’s your story? she will wonder as she scans the room from face to face. And this time, when she pleads with them to read between the lines, she will try to do the same. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

2 " Maybe I just need to be able to feel the significance of my own existence. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

3 " We were outsiders, waiting to become invisible. Waiting to amount to nothing. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

4 " I do what I always do. I go outside to get some air. Seems like I’m always trying to get some air. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

5 " She knew she should be grateful to have a job at all. It took her two years of subbing before she finally landed this one. She couldn’t risk losing it. She turned the handle slowly, pushed the door forward as if it was a giant boulder blocking the opening to a dark cave. She felt, for a moment, like Polyphemus returning to a cave of sheep. It wasn’t the first time she felt like a monster. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

6 " It’s hard living with eternal optimists. No matter how many times life craps on them, they wipe it off their faces and smile. I seem to be the only one who has accepted the truth: there is nothing around that corner but more crap. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

7 " I touch the fuzzy letter I. The pins he’s earned for varsity and captain. This is what we care about. How many pins we have. We want to be MVPs. The most valuable of all. What’s so wrong with that? It’s stupid, Beth would say. That’s what’s wrong with it. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

8 " It makes me want to cry. Sometimes, when someone is nice to you for no reason but when you need it most, that happens. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

9 " Let’s change the world, I want to say to her. I know you don’t know me, but let’s hijack this bus and go protest something. I don’t even care what. I just feel like yelling. I just feel like caring about something. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

10 " A family sitting in the TV light, staring at a flat box containing something more interesting than their entire darkened house. Than their entire neighborhood, entire city. Surrounded by the world, but focused on a box. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

11 " Now my life has shifted. But instead of feeling glad or excited, I feel lost. I didn’t realize how alone alone would feel. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

12 " Why do people want to be so skinny? What do they think will happen when they reach their size-zero goal? What happens at zero? Zero means there’s nothing left. Why does she want to disappear? "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

13 " Grace’s boyfriend’s parties became more important than trying to find ourselves. Maybe it’s because we became afraid of what we’d find. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines

14 " It’s not that I want a tragic life. I’m lucky I have nothing to worry about. Nothing. And that is what I feel. "

― Jo Knowles , Read Between the Lines