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What the meaning of “In a good book, the best is between the lines.'
-Swedish Proverb

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Reading between lines means to try to understand someone's real feelings or intentions from what they write or say.

So it means you are able to understand the real message in what you are reading or hearing, a meaning that is not available from a literal interpretation of the words.

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