M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe she hadn't worked in a restaurant, but anyone who made their cookbooks look like that must have known something.
I flipped through a few others. Thai salads, meringue-topped cakes, Carolina barbecue. Then on the bottom shelves, I found a row of cheap black-and-white speckled notebooks. They didn't fit the grown-up vibe of the rest of the room. Everyone has a soft spot, Jay had said. I reached for one.
"Cooking Notes," it said in sparkly green pen on the cover. The handwriting was rounder. A kid's.
"October 25," I read slowly, trailing my finger along the page.
Fish sticks. Cook at 400F for two minutes longer than the box says. Hank likes one tablespoon ketchup and one tablespoon yellow mustard mixed together. Mom likes one tablespoon mayonnaise with juice of a quarter of a lemon and one teaspoon Tabasco.
Hank's waffles. Toast Eggos on medium, put on butter and maple syrup, then microwave for ten seconds to melt everything together.
I flicked through a year of little Ellie's cooking. A lot of it was her trying to dress up convenience food--- pancakes, ramen. Toward the end of the notebook, she'd started to try random scratch recipes. Ground Turkey Tacos had lots of stars and fireworks drawn around it, while another for zucchini omelets only had "Yuck.”
Source: The Slowest Burn
“Maybe she has a wrinkle on her face in just the right place and I find it attractive. Maybe she says all of her statements as questions and I find that endearing. Maybe she swallows instead of spits or maybe I was just looking for a way to kill time with someone new over the next five years. The reasons why don’t matter.”
Source: The Paris Quartet : Short Stories For the End of the World
“Maybe she hated being out of control, knowing that someone or something else was dictating her fate. Because it's really not fair. A drunk driver runs a red light, and you end up dead. A guy in a movie theater coughs on you, and you catch some rare, fatal disease. You sit in class minding your own business, and there's the kid from sixth period holding a gun in his hand. Why should other people be in control? Why should someone else get to choose when you die?”
Source: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
“Maybe she is best off being a in couple with
herself. And why should anything be wrong with that? It’s
probably better to be happy with yourself than unhappy
with another person in a relationship.”
Source: You - The World of Thoughts Matters
“Maybe she is wrong about her marriage. Perhaps there is love, a love defined by marriage. Devoted, spiteful love.”
Source: So I Let It Be
“Maybe she just wants you. Pictures are the past, that's all. Maybe you're her future.”
Source: Far from the Tree
“Maybe she knew. Maybe she knew there wasn't time to waste, that she couldn't go through the motions, steps, build. That the linear trajectory would bring her only to the middle.”
Source: In Five Years
“Maybe she liked Van Gogh's work for other reasons, too. Maybe she liked how he created things while never knowing his own value. Maybe she liked the thought of being imperfect, but being loved anyway. Maybe she felt some sort of kinship with a man who, for his entire adult life, warred with his own monsters in his head. Vincent Van Gogh's last words were, after his brother comforted him by telling him he would get better from the self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, "La tristesse durera toujours", "the sadness will last forever".”
Source: The Seven Year Slip
“Maybe she loved me,
maybe not –
who knows?
Not even the gods
can see into
a human heart –
it’s that dark.”
“Maybe she needed someone to show her
how to live and he needed someone
to show him how to love.”
Source: Poetry and Pearls
“Maybe she really fell in love with Paris.'
'Maybe she was bored. After ten years shut up in Sparta, I'd want to leave too.'
'Maybe Aphrodite made her.'
'Maybe they'll bring her back with them.'
We considered this.
'I think Agamemnon would attack anyway.'
'I think so too. They never even mention her any more.'
'Except in speeches to the men.'
We were silent a moment.
'So, which of the suitors would you have picked?'
I shoved him, and he laughed.”
Source: The Song of Achilles
“Maybe she, Rien, should become a sorcerer. Or an angel. Then she could be an asshole, too, and if anybody commented on it, she could shrug and present her union card.”
Source: Dust
“Maybe she's a spaghetti girl.....straight until wet.”
“Maybe she’s helping him because his hands are full,” Lydia suggested.
The girl kissed a trace of chocolate from the corner of his mouth.
“Or not.”
Source: Under the Rose
“Maybe she’s meant to be alone. Unmarried. Deliciously free of people’s expectations. It sort of sounds like heaven, actually.”
Source: What's Become of Her
“Maybe," she said. "Maybe. But now you're making promises you might not be able to keep, and that's how people in love get very badly hurt.”
Source: Library of Souls
“Maybe she saw the sweet persimmon sunrise─or maybe she was already too far gone.”
Source: Bloodline Gypsy: Jook and Gypsies vol. 1
“Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, [...] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him on the job. What if he'd been injured in the line of duty and didn't come by as promised because he was incapacitated in some way? Maybe he hadn't called to apologize or to explain his absence because he physically couldn't. Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the second she first laid eyes on the man.”
“Maybe." She shrugs. "But I've learned not to fret over tomorrow. It will be whatever kind of day you need it to be.”
Source: Finding the Way Back to Me
“Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.”
Source: Pretties
“Maybe, she thought, the reign of malicious sarcasm was over and she could be a good person again.”
Source: The Great Night
“Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother.”
Source: Definitely Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel
“Maybe she was better at pretending than I'd given her credit for. Or maybe I was the one pretending.”
“Maybe she was drunk - the woman never could drink. One little sniff of tequila and she was off into some blonde la-la land.”
Source: Divine By Mistake
“Maybe she was escaping from the chaos of the words to the cosmos of silence.”
Source: Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“Maybe she was not really like that. It's just that I would prefer you to think that what happened to her was justified.”
Source: White Is for Witching
“Maybe she was right to burn my things, little wing. I love you once, and I love you still, but not all migrations end with a return home. Even memory begins to cut if you hold on to it too tight. I don't know anymore if I believe in angels and signs. Perhaps we are the miraculous creatures my mother was looking for.”
Source: The Thirty Names of Night
“Maybe she wasn’t real. Maybe I’m making it all up.”
Source: Lover's Rock: A These Americans Love Story
“Maybe she will be broken forever. but if it is so, she will adorn it with radiant elegance; and all that man will ever discern is her effortless grace and the softness of her smile.”
“Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all—clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn’t have ended.”
Source: As Good as New
“Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.”
“Maybe she'd been drinking too much of the super-sweet Mexican Coca-Cola they had down here. Or maybe she was just tired, alone, and far from home. Because somewhere in the brittle, concrete center of Azrael's dark heart, something was melting.”
“maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again.”
Source: Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition
“Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.”
Source: Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires
“Maybe she, like me, would have loved the tiny details and inconveniences even more dearly than the wonders, because they are the things that prove you belong.”
“Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.”
“Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.”
“Maybe since I was 35 years old it was time to go upstairs.”
“Maybe sincerity is the new punk. But to me, I think I have to connect with something emotionally, on some level, or I don't care about it. And if I don't care about it, then I don't think anyone listening to it will, either.”
“Maybe slavery has been with us for centuries because of the inclination to maintain economic systems geared more toward commodifying human existence than developing its spiritual, creative, or scientific potentials. Such commodification instantly erases any recognition of humanity as a priceless value unto itself and reduces individuals as well as entire races, or a specific gender, to a bargain-priced 'other.”
Source: Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah
“Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can’t kiss a girl into anything.”
Source: Six-Gun Snow White
“Maybe so, but I'm not just looking up at the sky and waiting for the fruit to drop. In my own way, I'm working hard. I'm working ten times harder than you are.”
Source: Norwegian Wood
“Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.”
“Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”
“Maybe some choices aren't about choosing at all. Maybe they're about growing big enough to hold more than one kind of love.”
Source: The Winter Pact: A Cozy Winter YA Novella With a Best Friend’s Brother Twist
“Maybe some could say that changing her mind was part of her problem. But she didn’t think so. If you never changed your mind, what was the point of having one? It seemed to Hayley she’d known too many people who were stuck with one way of thinking, and how could that be using the brain God gave you.”
Source: Blue Dahlia
“Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.”
Source: I Lived to Tell It All
“Maybe some good things have to end, so new good things can happen.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Maybe some guy that checks out your ass before he says hello isn't someone worth knowing.”
Source: House of Earth and Blood
“Maybe some guys were looking at that ranking a little bit too seriously.”