Fine Line Quotes

“I told Ersken, "Lately it's been like living on the knife's edge, never knowing which side I'll fall off on"
Ersken clapped me on the shoulder as we stepped into the street. "Cheer up, Beka. Maybe you were going to fall off that razor's edge before, but not today," he said, as good humored as always. "Today we're doing to jump.”
― Tamora Pierce, Bloodhound

“There's a fine line between forgiveness and denial.”
― Janet Rebhan, Finding Tranquility Base

“There is a fine line between challenging yourself and overwhelming yourself.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence.”
― Sergei Lukyanenko, The Last Watch

“As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying”
― E.B. White

“There is a fine line between stubbornness and stupidity as well as intensity and insanity.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“I had always believed that the very best food contains something elementally repugnant. That its innate grotesquerie is what makes it so perversely alluring. My own favorite foods tended toward a certain sludgy, muddy texture. And from the most expensive and genteel through to the indulgently crass, the appeal of slop abides: caviar, escargots, foie gras or hamburgers, kebabs, macaroni and cheese. Even vegetable soup forms a membrane. Apples begin rotting from the very first bite. No matter which end of the spectrum, there lies fundamentally and yet delectably disgusting, some squirmy, sinewy, oozing, greasy, sticky, glutinous, mushy, fatty, chewy, viscous thing that compels. The line between pleasure and revulsion can seem so very thin, if it even exists at all.”
― Lara Williams, Supper Club

“Ignorance is a fine line that separates right and wrong.”
― Yash Thakur

“There's more to good or bad than what's written in the Rulebook.”
― Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey

“There’s a very fine line between trying to please others and making sure that your own needs are being met.”
― Frank Sonnenberg, Listen to Your Conscience: That's Why You Have One

“How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.”
― Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking

“...a hatred so strong not even love could overcome it.

The line between the two is paper thin and razor sharp, and we ended up on the wrong side of it. Maybe it was always inevitable, but if that were true, it wouldn't feel like losing something.”
― Rachel Griffin, Wild Is the Witch

“There’s a fine line between being impish and being a passive-aggressive jerk.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Fine is the line between vengeance and justice. Blur it and you become no better than him.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, Chivalry's Code

“There's a little edge of pain here and we walk along it.
Don't cry, don't kiss me either, and also don't stop.”
― Deborah Landau, The Last Usable Hour

“There's a fine line between
limiting yourself
and knowing your limit.
Once you cross the line in,
you might eliminate,
or rather, sublime it!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job

“But I’ll gladly have you sit on my face. Make me your throne, and you’ll be my crown”
― Beanie Harper, ELORA