M Quotes
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“Maybe,” he says slowly, as if each word is an effort, “she took advantage of me.”
Source: Entice
“Maybe he sees it on my face, that fraction of a second when I let my guard down, because in that moment his expression softens and his eyes go bright as flame and even though I barely see him move, suddenly he has closed the space between us and he’s wrapping his warm hands over my shoulders—fingers so warm and strong I almost cry out—and saying, “Lena. I like you, okay? That’s it. That’s all. I like you.” His voice is so low and hypnotic it reminds me of a song. I think of predators dropping silently from trees: I think of enormous cats with glowing amber eyes, just like his.”
“Maybe he should apologise for the version of himself that would've accepted the loss of her life and filled a pen with her blood. But how exactly did one apologise for theoretical monstrosity? He wasn't very good at apologising for things he had done.”
Source: Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?”
“Maybe he should start this healing journey by trying to figure out how to forgive himself? How could he expect true forgiveness from other is he didn't have the courage to look at himself in the eye and offer forgiveness to the man he'd become?”
Source: Their Amish Reunion
“Maybe he showed up because I needed him, not just for play, but to shield me from another voice entirely. Maybe Colonel O'Truth was a product of protection from the terrifying God I encountered at the Catholic church in the form of statues and crucifixes, or the stories my grandmother and mother were always telling me about how He was going to punish me if I misbehaved. Regardless of where he came from, the Colonel was a comforting voice.”
Source: Breaking Building Belonging: Why the Voices We Follow Matter
“Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.”
“Maybe, he thought, it was okay if some dreams took a long time to come true.”
Source: The land of dreams and nightmares
“Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.”
“Maybe he was broken. Like a clock that always stops when it shouldn't, or a cracked teacup that spills anything poured inside.
Something was broken inside him, causing his gears to work incorrectly, and that's why he could never seem to do anything right. Useless. Garbage, to be thrown away.”
Source: Echoes of Mercy
“Maybe he was Filipino. Was that in Asia? Probably. Asia's out-of-control huge.”
Source: Eleanor & Park
“Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.”
Source: Return to Me
“Maybe he was honor-bound to lock us in, by some imagined duty? Perhaps this was an Islamic preparation to make us contended wives? Were these locks supposed to dampen useless dreams that sparked needless desires? Or, was he a mad man, sick and demented?”
Source: Persianality
“Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.”
Source: A Hologram for the King
“Maybe he was old-fashioned, but to him a couple meant a strong bond, with positive and negative charges constantly arcing between them.”
Source: Songs for the Missing
“Maybe he was reaching out to me through those words, and I let him slip away. I stayed silent. If I had written to him more often, been more honest, would it have helped him work through some of his problems so he wouldn’t have run away from home? Maybe if I tried to find him, I would have. Maybe he wouldn’t have become an addict if someone were there for him.
Maybe he wouldn’t have been killed in the street by the police, his death tallied as an improvement to society.”
Source: Patron Saints of Nothing
“Maybe he was real. Maybe I'd made him up. Either way, he didn't think I needed him anymore. Maybe he was right.”
“Maybe he would not run away after all, even if exposed to all her family's idiosyncrasies. [Carlina's biggest fear about Stefano]”
Source: Banker's Death: Temptation in Florence #3
“Maybe he would see me as weak and stupid. Maybe he was right.”
Source: Bird After Bird
“Maybe he wouldn't end up the kind of man who needed to use his body for work. Maybe he'd be a new kind of black man altogether, one who got to use his mind.”
Source: Homegoing
“Maybe he wouldn't say anything, which is the worst thing men do.”
Source: The First Bad Man
“Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony.”
Source: The Poisonwood Bible
“maybe he's falling in love with the idea of falling in love with me. Maybe he wants to be in love with someone and I've ended up in the right place at the right time.”
“Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.”
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Maybe he's not college-smart, but he's smart in a way they can't teach.”
Source: Blue-Eyed Devil: A Novel
“Maybe heartache was more normal than the absence of it.”
Source: Daughters for a Time
“Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.”
Source: Release
“Maybe heaven entailed more than a soul residing in a single place, but instead having pieces of yourself spread among the hearts and memories of people you've touched.”
Source: The Pieces We Keep
“Maybe heaven is getting to live forever in one really wonderful moment....I've made a point of collecting happy moments, ones I might like to live in for all time.”
Source: Ghost Riders
“Maybe heaven was innocence, limbo was ignorance, and hell was fiery illumination.”
Source: Touching the Surface
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.”
Source: Magic in the Backyard
“Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list.”
“Maybe Hell ain't a place meant for us to Burn, maybe Earth is Hell and just a place for us to Learn.”
“Maybe hell is seeing the lost loved painted over the faces of the strangers we meet.”
Source: The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley
“Maybe her father was angry with her. Maybe he had gone away because she tried to make him stop smoking. She thought she was saving his life, but maybe she was being mean to him. Her mother said she must not annoy her father, because he was worried about being out of work. Maybe she had made him so angry he did not love her anymore. Maybe he had gone away because he did not love her. She thought of all the scary things she had seen on television-houses that had fallen down in earthquakes, people shooting people, big hairy men on motorcycles -and she knew she needed her father to keep her safe.”
Source: Ramona and Her Father
“Maybe her gods are kinder than ours, and she will find rest”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Maybe her husband was right: maybe change didn't necessarily mean disaster. Maybe the mess of life was the very thing she was supposed to enjoy instead of always fighting it, trying to impose order. The universe was trying to tell her something - was it, perhaps, to let go?”
Source: The Summer of Good Intentions
“Maybe her own tears were the poison that made her grow.”
“Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead.”
“Maybe her silence was another way to express scorn. There is a saying: empty vessels make the loudest sounds. Maybe that was the principal behind Naomi’s silence. Maybe she was emptied, spent, angry.
Michael Ben Zehabe, Ruth: a woman’s guide to husband material, pg 31”
Source: Ruth: A Woman's Guide to Husband Material
“maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can and should be lived without fear”
Source: The Son
“Maybe Himalayan climbing is just a bad habit, like smoking, of which one says with cavalier abandon, must give this up some day, before it kills me.”
Source: Mixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child
“Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.”
“Maybe his nightmare had been about me.”
Source: Prodigy
“Maybe Holgy's right. Maybe we are all holograms.”
Source: Guantanamo Boy
“Maybe home for some is always the one they lost.”
Source: All the Seas of the World
“Maybe home is just all that we leave behind.”
Source: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
“Maybe home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst.”
“Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over. But it's hard to make things when you're afraid―or you're certain—that they'll just be broken.”
Source: Cast in Flame
“Maybe home is something we have to make, and remake, over and over.”