M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe it's time that we started to farm plastic because it's already in the food chain.”
“Maybe it's time to let him go. Find someone who truly appreciates you. That person is out there."
I wanted to believe her. I really did.”
Source: Lost and ProFound
“Maybe it’s time to set aside intellectualism and experience the wonders of things that can’t be explained.”
“Maybe it’s time we all just start shouting each other’s names and start going in for the hugs because we are excited to see people we love and want them to know it.”
Source: Live
“Maybe it’s time you explained yourself, Dark Prince,” I said, crossing my arms over my chest. “If I’m going to keep your secrets then I think it’s time that you shared them with me.”
Source: First Message
“Maybe it's true what the Seelie Queen had said, after all: Love made you a liar.”
Source: City of Ashes
“Maybe it's wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.”
“Maybe it should be weird, simulating sex with your husband in front of people. But it's really not. When its a love scene with someone you actually love it's no 'Can I touch him here, can I touch him there' You know what your boundaries are, or aren't I suppose.”
“Maybe it stems from my newspaper-reporting days, but I took notes the whole time - getting the call, how I felt. As soon as I put pen to paper, it became a story [Hunger Heart], not something happening to me but something I was recording.”
“Maybe it takes forty years of your life to understand how the world seems to work.”
“maybe
it tangles with chaos
and loses hold
of safe and sane…
but that kind of love will be like wildfire.
and the way they touch you
will feel like wildfire.
and your heart… it will take everything
in like it’s on fire.
and it may be heavy on your soul when it
breaks you, but only because you
burned so deep for it.
maybe it’s brutal when you have to
let it fall from your hands,
but god, how beautiful it feels
when you’re holding it.”
“Maybe it took the depths of darkness for humanity to first glimpse its own potential.”
Source: The Inconvenience of Time
“Maybe it was a good thing that Bones was putting Don's remains away instead of me. With my current emotional state, I'd probably think the only safe place for his ashes was tucked inside my clothes next to the garlic and weed.”
“Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or if not exactly love, you fall into something you can't see out of. 'I can't shoot a machine gun' becomes 'Hey, this hardly has any kick-back!”
Source: Running With Scissors
“Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.”
“Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nervous bark of a dog, not the sound of violence or of a child weeping in the kind of desolation or terror that demands intervention”
Source: Three Moments of an Explosion
“Maybe it was because like not only finds like; it cant even escape from being found by its like. (p. 63)”
Source: Light in August
“Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.”
Source: The Never-Open Desert Diner
“Maybe it was better to accept that when someone died there were some things that were never going to happen, and this was just another one of them. Because death left things unfinished. Unsaid. Unsewn. And it sucked.”
Source: Completely Normal
“Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when
really bad things were just about to happen.”
Source: Hairstyles of the Damned
“Maybe it was better, now and then, to wonder.”
Source: Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
“Maybe it was Cara's version of darkness that told me she was empty. She didn't believe in letting light in through cracks or streams, and I'm not sure she believed in letting it in at all. Cara was the empty feeling in my heart, the offness of the drumbeat in a funeral song. She didn't believe in letting the light in through cracks because she didn't believe in letting the light in at all.”
“Maybe it was clear that he cared about me, that he couldn't handle another risk, but in that moment the only thing that made sense was my anger. I might have even hated him for what he said about Grace, because hating him was so much easier than understanding him. He obviously felt the same way.”
Source: The Lies That Bind
“Maybe it was fate that I sat next to her that day, or serendipity, divine intervention, who knows? However you look at, I got seated next to the first girl to ever really steal my heart. I was in love from that moment on.”
Source: Sweet Thing
“Maybe it was for the best that she'd been so foolish, for if she'd known how hard this would be, perhaps she wouldn't have done it.”
Source: Graceling
“Maybe it was for the better. Teach them early that dreams and wishes are things that bring only pain, that nothing comes for free, that for every piece of good fortune, somehow and somewhere the universe will balance itself out with misfortune.”
Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories
“Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.”
“Maybe it was inevitable. Maybe we were two magnets the universe had been drawing together all this time.”
Source: The Astonishing Color of After
“Maybe it was just me shorting myself to hedge my expectations. As a fan, I was excited about the project. If you look at the body of work for the people involved, I was excited about the project, but I didn't really know. There were people saying, "I think we're going to be part of something huge."”
“Maybe it was just my imagination, but before Alex went down the ladder, she gave me a look like You okay? Or maybe she was just wondering why I was so weird, as per usual.”
Source: The Ship of the Dead
“Maybe it was just my life, my strange and always stranger life, taking all the life out of me.”
Source: The Answers
“Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.”
Source: The Moon and More
“Maybe it was just that this music had a personal connection to me, but for whatever reason, the music stirred my heart in a way no music ever had.”
Source: The Notes in Our Hearts
“Maybe it was magic. I was really prepared for everything. I knew I had to go for every shot, but I also think for her it wasn't really easy when she saw I was running and putting everything back too.”
“Maybe it was me," Grandma said."Sometimes they sneak out.Did I fart?”
Source: To the Nines
“Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.”
“Maybe it was mild mania, a little storm in sequins. The line winds when it comes to creativity and mental illness. But a flatline is always exactly what it is. Sometimes you have to embrace a little madness in art, and my mom was fully committed.”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Maybe it was my imagination, or maybe I wanted someone to blame. I was willing to entertain those possibilities. What I didn't understand was why I couldn't do anything more than stand around in pain.”
Source: The Isle of Youth: Stories
“Maybe it was my revenge on people who had been unkind to me as a child. But it was very easy and a thrill to freeze up children.”
“Maybe it was Natalie’s round, mysterious cocoa colored eyes, the guts it took for a broad to chase crooks, that hooked him.”
Source: Running Stop Signs
“Maybe it was not fear of death that motivated the people who were most alive, she thought, but some other force, say a capacity for delight.”
Source: Oh Pure and Radiant Heart
“Maybe it was not too late to dream again.”
Source: Nowhere Strangers: A Sapphic Coming-of-Age Story of Digital Romance, Heartbreak, and Self-Discovery
“Maybe it was obsession, but it was also happiness; an escape from the suckiness of everyday life. And when you find something that makes you happy and giddy and excited every day, us fangirls know a truth that everyone else seems to have forgotten: you hold on to that joy tenaciously, for as long as you can.”
Source: Kill the Boy Band
“Maybe it was only goblin women who were restless and wanted to see the world. She didn't know.”
Source: The Peculiars
“Maybe it was only grief, after all, bubbling to the surface in all its ugly trappings—grief like a gaping wound for a daughter who is gone and likely not coming home again.”
Source: I Killed Zoe Spanos
“Maybe it was over a dozen years of having to obey Petunia immediately or having Minerva McGonagall for his Head of House or being friends with Hermione Granger…sort of. But whatever caused it, Harry knew instinctively that when an individual of the female gender got that tone in her voice, he damn well better stop, shut up, and pay attention... Neville, growing up with his Gran, froze as well, being equally as well-trained as Harry regarding female tones.”
Source: On Whom the Pale Moon Gleams
“Maybe it was pathetic, but he wanted to live in a world where brides-to-be only had sex with their grooms-to-be and vice versa. Besides, large groups of horny women were terrifying. You couldn't defend yourself against them, and their nails were sharp.”
Source: The Kiss Quotient
“Maybe it was selfish, but I didn’t want to let her rest in peace. She could do that when it was my turn.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“Maybe it was senseless to want to be near a person so badly here in a country where bullets had shredded her own brothers to pieces. But all Laila had to do was picture Tariq going at Hadim with his leg and then nothing in the world seemed more sensible to her.”
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Maybe it was simply human nature to only love a thing after losing it. Maybe they should all lose more things so they can appreciate what they had.”
Source: The Night Mark