M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe I hoped the Shadowhunters would come, but they didn’t.
Someone else came instead. A pack of scruffy mundane boys, who wanted
to defend their streets from the monster. They all died, except one. He
always did what he set out to do. He killed the monster. He was my
Raphael.”
Source: The Land I Lost
“Maybe I just didn’t want it to be Benny because he really loves her, and if I was wrong about that, it’d be depressing. Who wants to be depressed?”
“Poets,” Eve decided. “You have to think they must.”
“Okay, other than poets.”
Source: Fantasy in Death
“Maybe I just have a different line than other people in terms of where my personal emotional space becomes public and private. There's almost nothing I wouldn't tell somebody about my quote - unquote "personal life" if they asked in any conversation. There's nothing I've done or said that's that great. I don't see anything I've done to be that different than any other normal person.”
“Maybe I just have high self-esteem, but I have a lot that I really enjoy.”
“Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.”
“Maybe I just stay in relationships for too long and then they get really dramatic.”
“Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.”
Source: Brewster: A Novel
“maybe i like
that you came here
to do more
than pass time, or hold your space
over there,
and i could trade my foothold
for my senses shaken,
and forgo my ability
to stay in my body,
if you want to show me
how abandon
can feel like magic”
“Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.
And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?”
Source: Becoming What I Might Be
“Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.”
“Maybe I’ll be able to look harder at the past by getting some experience in the present.”
Source: My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
“Maybe I'll buy a camera and videotape myself 'a la Paranormal Activity style. Then I'll be able to watch myself sleepwalking and getting up to make pancakes and then standing over Midnight dangling a peice of bacon.”
Source: Temptation
“Maybe I'll die in my sleep tonight and then I won't be so lonely.”
“Maybe I’ll never be able to figure out what I’m passionate about. But when I choose something, it has to be something that when I wake up it’s the first thing I think about, and it’s also the last thing I think about before I go to sleep. I read about other people and how much they love their jobs—like, how they just want to do it all the time and it doesn’t feel like work because they love it so much. I want that to happen to me.”
Source: Hello, Privet! #1 : Hello/Привет
“Maybe I'll really try to kiss her, even if I fall through her like a raindrop.”
“Maybe I’m a bad writer.”
“No. You’re a very good writer. Kalipso was a chef d’oeuvre. So beautiful, Arthur. I admired it a lot.”
Now Less is stumped. He probes his weaknesses. Too magniloquent? Too spoony? “Too old?” he ventures.
“We’re all over fifty, Arthur. It’s not that you’re a bad writer.” Finley pauses for effect. “It’s that you’re a bad gay.”
Source: Less
“Maybe I'm crying because I'm terrified that he's come here to do more damage, to reactivate what I feel only to let me down easy again, missionary style.”
Source: Autoboyography
“Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him?
In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief.
Love. Love was what drove him.”
Source: The Deepest Green
“Maybe I'm finally letting the words out because he breathed some of his unending confidence into me. Or maybe I feel bolder when I'm shadowed by night. I think some questions can't bear to face the light. It's easier for hesitant words and feared answers to be given in the dark. At least then, we can hide them in the shadows - hide ourselves from them.”
Source: Glint
“Maybe I’m half over who he
was, but not who I thought he was, and not
over the wound, sudden deathblow
as if out of nowhere, though it came from the core
of our life together.”
Source: Stag's Leap (Pulitzer Prize Winner): Poems
“Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.”
“Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.”
Source: Ghost World
“Maybe I'm just tired.”
Source: Seven Sins
“Maybe I'm not overthinking it. Maybe I've been told I'm overthinking it so often, by so many people, I've convinced myself it's all I'm capable of. But what if they're wrong? What if I'm thinking it exactly the right amount? What if everyone else is simply underthinking it, continuously, and the deficit is actually theirs? Because something tells me I'm not in the wrong here: my instincts are spot-on.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“Maybe I'm overcast. And maybe all my lucks washed down the drain.”
Source: Switchfoot: Nothing Is Sound
“Maybe I'm "reading it all wrong" after all. Maybe I'm just jumping ahead again, making assumptions, preparing for my own heartbreak, planning for rejection. Creating a schedule for a future that isn't going to happen.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“Maybe I’m scared. Maybe I can’t lose anyone else so I’m shutting them out. Maybe I feel like I’m just not good enough for them.”
Source: You Were Always There
“Maybe I’m still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand.”
Source: Hourglass Museum
“Maybe I'm still the same as I was then. I'm just looking out at the world through a crack in a closet door...”
“Maybe I’m strange and perverse, but I’ve always thought there was something sexy about a compelling argument.”
Source: A Lost Argument: A Latter-Day Novel
“Maybe I’m stupid. Maybe I’m just as evil as he is by keeping my mouth shut. But he told me once that I was different. And I can’t help but hope that me being different is the one thing in this world that can save him from what he fears the most…Himself.”
Source: A Whisper To A Scream
“Maybe I’m the sun and the tides, and you’re the moon and the stars; but all that means to me is that you are light in the dark. You’re every wish in my night sky, and I’ll follow you wherever you go.”
Source: The Soulmate Theory
“Maybe I'm too crazy to be in a relationship," Henry said, which was his familiar response to Bobby's familiar discourse about the future. It felt like a grown-up thing to say, and like a difficult concession, and what he meant by it was I am trying as hard as I can and it's not enough for you or even Why can't my weak eccentricities be adorable to you, as yours are to me? But Bobby always heard it as a conversation stopper, childish and easy and glib.”
Source: The Great Night
“Maybe I'm too emotional or maybe you never cared at all.”
“Maybe I'm too late to be your first. But right now, I'm preparing myself to be your last.”
“Maybe I'm trying to?”
Source: The Real Ones
“Maybe I'm walking into a trap. I'm waiting for him to show me his grays when all I can see is green.”
Source: Boomslang
“Maybe I'm weaker than I thought. Maybe all there is for me is my semi-safe world of books and blue flowers.”
Source: Inked in Blood and Memory
“Maybe I'm willing to take that risk."
"Well, I'm not." He slid one arm about her waist, tucked the other beneath her knees, and hauled her out of the water, into his arms. Like a damned mermaid. A sparkling, golden-haired, ruby-lipped mermaid. "I can't lose you."
I can't lose you, he said.
I can't feel my elbows, Penny thought.
She couldn't help but give a long, swooning sigh.
This man was so dangerous. He had a habit of blurting out these growly, possessive statements, punctuated by intense gazes and capped by displays of sheer virility.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Maybe I'm willing to take that risk."
"Well, I'm not." He slid one arm about her waist, tucked the other beneath her knees, and hauled her out of the water, into his arms. Like a damned mermaid. A sparkling, golden-haired, ruby-lipped mermaid. "I can't lose you."
I can't lose you, he said.
I can't fell my elbows, Penny thought.
She couldn't help but give a long, swooning sigh.
This man was so dangerous. He had a habit of blurting out these growly, possessive statements, punctuated by intense gazes and capped by displays of sheer virility.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“Maybe I'm wrong; I might not believe in fate but I do believe in causality and who's to say fate isn't just a sort of social mathematics that brings like-minded people together.”
Source: Nerd Do Well
“Maybe I'm wrong, so let me at least say this: fight, America. You might not want to fight for the things that most others would fight for, like money or notoriety, but fight all the same. Whatever it is that you want, America, go after it with all that you have in you.
If you can do that, if you can keep from letting fear make you settle for second best, then I can't ask for anything more from you as a parent. Live your life. Be as happy as you can be, let go of the things that don't matter, and fight.”
Source: The One
“Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday’s me is still me. I am who I am today, with all my faults. Tomorrow I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that’s me, too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I was, who I am, and who I hope to become.”
“Maybe I made a mistake yesterday, but yesterday's me is still me. Today, I am who I am with all of my faults and my mistakes. Tomorrow, I might be a tiny bit wiser, and that'll be me too. These faults and mistakes are what I am, making up the brightest stars in the constellation of my life. I have come to love myself for who I am, for who I was, and for who I hope to become.”
Source: Beyond The Story: 10-Year Record of BTS
“Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?”
“Maybe I need some rehab,
Or maybe just need some sleep”
“Maybe I need somebody that could save me
From the parts of myself that keep making me crazy.”
“Maybe I needed sensitivity training. I once signed up for an anger management class, but the instructor pissed me off.”
Source: First Grave on the Right
“Maybe I needed that somebody else could cry over my pain, to become able to cry over it myself. Nobody ever cried or was moved when I suffered as a child. (Lisa)”
“Maybe I needed to make like a potato, winnow myself down, be part of something that was not easy, just simple.”