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Quotes About Betwixt

I am nowhere. You can call me the man in the middle.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
But Fate does iron wedges drive, And always crowds itself betwixt.
~ Andrew Marvell
Jack Sprat could eat no fat,His wife could eat no lean;And so betwixt them both,They licked the platter clean.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
You saw too late. Now you are as she is, bewteen two worlds, warmth bleeding into cold.
~ Elizabeth Lowell
There is more betwixt the day and the night than we can ever know.
~ Sally Gardner
Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mineThere fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shedUpon my soul between the kisses and the wine;And I was desolate and sick of an old passion,Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head:I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion.
~ Ernest Dowson
That which is neither ill nor well. That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell, A wreath of the mist, a bubble of the stream, 'Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream; A form that men spy With the half-shut eye. In the beams of the setting sun, am I.
~ Walter Scott
Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday.
~ Henry Carey
Our own slice of time is only ever betwixt and between.
~ Unknown
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
"Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind, Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind, Now slip, now slide, now move unseen, Above, beneath, betwixt, between." Something huge touched him, brushed him from head to feet, and he shivered. His hair prickled, and his skin was all gooseflesh.
~ Neil Gaiman
Why don't we have a word for the utterance between laughing and crying?
~ Peter Heller