Between Everything and Us Quotes

“Beau never stays within the lines. He’s not just my roommate, he moves through Portland as if it’s his city, as though all the people at this party are his best friends, as if he invented beer pong, even. He’s that drop of water that runs and seeps into the paper, smearing the other watercolors until they’ve run wild as well.”
― Rebecca Paula, Between Everything and Us

“I like how her New England accent cuts through her words, too. Mati reinvents the alphabet when she’s mad.”
― Rebecca Paula, Between Everything and Us

“I never fell for Mati; I crashed into that oblivion and drowned in it. She’s galaxies to me—endless.”
― Rebecca Paula, Between Everything and Us

“Have you ever been in love, Beau?” His body tenses below mine. “Now I have.”
― Rebecca Paula, Between Everything and Us

“I think it’s so easy to fall into the world when you’re not ready,” she says seriously. Her free hand brushes over my brows, then sweeps down my nose. “It’s such a big place, and we’re all very tiny in the scheme of things.”
― Rebecca Paula, Between Everything and Us

“Water seems so harmless until you’re about to drown—in that moment, it’s made of fire.

When the rapids slowed and I dragged myself to shore, I wasn’t laughing anymore. I laid back on the earthy bank, the pine needles pricking my body as I stared up at the sky. I waited for answers, but nothing happened. Nothing much except feeling overtaken by the infinite blue above, the truth that I was small, the fact that some things are too good to waste.

I fell for Mati the same way—wading in to learn her depths, to navigate her pull over me. I knew it was trouble. I knew once I was in, I was all in.”
― Rebecca Paula, Between Everything and Us