Delilah Mcphee Quotes

“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

“[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.”
“Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events.
“So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.”
“Huh?” I say.”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“I sigh. “But if you’d talked to Jules—if she could hear you . . .” My voice trails off.
“Then you wouldn’t feel quite so crazy?” Oliver asks gently. “Can’t you believe in me, if I believe in you?”
― Jodi Picoult, Between the Lines

“Doves coo in the rafters above us as she sits down on the blanket, her loathed dress whispering around her. She pops a grape into her mouth and sighs. "This is so unreal. I feel like a princess."
She couldn't have given me a better opening for the conversation I've been hoping to have.
"Funny," I say. "I was thinking the same thing."
Delilah frowns. "You feel like a princess too?”
― Jodi Picoult