logo

Quotes About In-between

It is the hour of pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
~ John Steinbeck
And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in between anywhere.
~ John Steinbeck
And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in-between anywhere.
~ John Steinbeck
It is the hour of the pearl—the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself.
~ John Steinbeck
He is between worlds, this boy. Between the river and the town, between the hogshead and the house, between the taint of his mother and the stain of his pap. He knows some things that he can never say, not even to himself.
~ Unknown
Isn't life so strange? You don't know whats real and what isn't. What there and whats not. Whats right or whats wrong. This isn't heaven and this isn't hell.. it's just someplace in-between
~ Unknown
He was a man who did not properly exist in any single world, but he seemed to have found a place between them, and that, more than his past, was who he was.
~ Marie Brennan
It doesn't feel like a date. It doesn't feel like friendship. It feels like something that fell off the tightrope but hasn't yet hit the net.
~ David Levithan
When I was halfway between one world and another, a moment of clarity broke through. This is what it was to die. *
~ Mary E. Pearson
It was in the in-between time when he felt lost.
~ Unknown
I felt the beautiful melancholy of being human, captured perfectly in the setting of a sun. Because, as with a sunset, to be human was to be in-between things; a day, bursting with desperate colour as it headed irreversibly towards night
~ Matt Haig
For want of a better word, it is in-between. It is not life. It is not death. It is not the real world in a conventional sense. But nor is it a dream. It isn't one thing or another. It is, in short, the Midnight Library.
~ Matt Haig
Something was consuming the girl. I need help. She thought of her in that interview room, slightly breathless and entrancing. Wanting desperately to be told that nothing was her fault, that her body and brain had conspired against her. The feeling she must have, always, of being in between worlds, the worlds separated only by an impenetrable pane of glass.
~ Megan Abbott
watching the stars appear in the sky. It was one of her favorite times of day, when the colors that streaked across the sky faded. Things were neither bright nor dark, but caught somewhere between. That was how life had felt for so long: it could get better or worse
~ Melissa Marr
Life isn't just about major characters and the big events. It's about everyone, everything, in between.
~ Michelle Richmond
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Honor the space between no longer and not yet.
~ Unknown
Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?
~ Olga Tokarczuk
It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really here. And never really there.
~ Paul Auster
It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really have. And never really there.
~ Paul Auster
Nikad nije umeo da bude tamo gde se nalazio. Jer ?itavog svog života, bio je negde drugde, izme?u tu i tamo. Ali nikada sasvim tu. I nikada sasvim tamo.
~ Paul Auster
Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.
~ Paul David Tripp
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should--a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds.
~ Paula McLain
It was our favorite part of the day, this in-between time, and it always seemed to last longer than it should—a magic and lavender space unpinned from the hours around it, between worlds. I held my reel and felt the line list, and was back in Cologne with Ernest and Chink. Back at my first fish, knowing there wouldn't be any fish without this one, and no love without this first one either.
~ Paula McLain