M Quotes
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“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Maybe that’s what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Maybe that's what all lives were, though. Maybe even the most seemingly perfectly intense or worthwhile lives ultimately felt the same. Acres of disappointment and monotony and hurts and rivalries but with flashes of wonder and beauty. Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself. Maybe it wasn't the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother's parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place. She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat she realised something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then, she forgave them completely.”
Source: The Midnight Library
“Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up”
Source: Batman, Volume 5: Zero Year – Dark City
“Maybe that's what beauty is: loving being looked at. The beautiful are greedy.”
Source: Stories: The Collected Short Fiction
“Maybe that’s what children were - a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn’t want it.”
Source: Nothing to See Here
“Maybe that’s what happens with soul mates: when one side of the coin loses its shine, so too does the other.”
Source: A Widow's Awakening
“Maybe that's what happens, you go places and do things that are beyond your parents' capacity to imagine or understand, and that's how you start thinking of them as quaint and peripheral.”
Source: The Middle Place
“Maybe that’s what happiness is. People wake up in the morning, start existing, and the most challenging sensation of the day is the flavour of their toothpaste. They probably even frown at it for being provocative. They have resigned themselves to doing exactly the same as yesterday, all the while dreaming of what they will not do tomorrow. This, I guess, is another paradox moulded into an acceptable fact via peoples’ beloved phrase: “It’s normal”.”
Source: One: Angels Are Hard to Love
“Maybe that's what Hell is, in the end. All of your wrongful shit played out there in front of you while you're being pumped from behind by someone you've hurt. That you've screwed over in life. Or worse, worse still...some person who doesn't really love you anymore. No one to ever look at again, make contact with. Just you being fucked as your life splashes out across this big headboard in the Devil's bedroom. Maybe. Even if that's not it, even if Hell is all fire and sulfur and that sort of thing, it couldn't be much worse than that.”
Source: The Mercy Seat: A Play
“Maybe that's what I needed. Another tattoo. Some pain on the outside to ease the pain on the inside.”
Source: Spencer Cohen, Book One
“Maybe that's what life was really about - trying to reclaim the safety and comfort you previously enjoyed inside a womb.”
Source: Making Hearts
“Maybe that's what living is--recognizing the marvels and oddities around you.”
Source: Love from A to Z
“Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.”
Source: A Drink Before The War
“Maybe that's what love is. Having someone who guides you through different experiences, coaxes you to try news things but still makes you feel safe.”
Source: We Are Water
“Maybe that's what love is—sacrificing yourself to save another, taking the insult or taking the hit.”
Source: Dear Mr. Knightley
“Maybe that’s what makes a marriage last, he thinks. Memories made of electricity and rock music and hot sand between the toes and dance parties and beach days and moments that cannot be stuffed into words.”
Source: Of All Things Sacred
“Maybe that's what makes us human—the fact that we know how broken we are, but we keep playing the game anyway. Maybe that's what the ancients were trying to say all along. Life's a tragedy, sure, but it's also a comedy.
And the only way to survive was to keep laughing, even when there's nothing funny about it.”
“Maybe that's what making a family is all about: creating an environment in which people make space for one another - maybe without even trying, just naturally, to make sure that nobody's forgotten.”
“Maybe that's what our friendship was. It was the feeling that we didn't have to speak or explain. We could sit in the darkness and watch the tadpoles just as easily as we could lie out in the heat and breathe in the smell of peaches and gravel, all without saying a word.”
“Maybe that's what's keeping me awake - the choices.”
Source: Good Girl, Bad Girl
“Maybe that’s what the crawl space
is between grief and gratitude—remembrance or
memory. Maybe that is the condition of my transplanted heart, one of remembering.”
Source: Your Hearts, Your Scars
“Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late that we've wounded the people we are trying to protect.”
Source: Handle with Care
“Maybe that's what writers do-
Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.”
“Maybe that's what you wanna do, but don't shove your beliefs down my throat. 'Cause that ain't how I feel at all.”
Source: 文豪ストレイドッグス ＳＴＯＲＭ ＢＲＩＮＧＥＲ [Bungō Stray Dogs: Storm Bringer]
“Maybe that’s when the tears first fell, bleeding out through the fissures of his shattered soul.”
Source: Toxic Love
“Maybe that's where you came from, Hunt,' she said, offering him a gentle smile, 'but it's not who you are-who you became.”
Source: House of Flame and Shadow
“Maybe that's why adults drink, gamble, and do drugs - because they can't get naturally lit anymore. Maybe we lose that ability as we get older.”
Source: Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
“Maybe that's why I'd been chosen to become the first female Reaper in history. I think the boys had been losing too many souls.”
Source: Raven's Breath
“Maybe that’s why I get frustrated sometimes, because there’s no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn’t change any of the things I’ve done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there’s also no satisfaction in where I am.”
Source: The Man Who Watched the World End
“Maybe that’s why I started thinking that my sexuality or virginity was where all my worth and honour lay. For a while, I tried to see myself as something maybe a little more than just a girl with a tragic back story. For some time, I was waiting to be saved and I was waiting for some prince charming to come and rescue me like in the movies, take me from this house I am trapped in, where I was suffocating on the traditions and expectations”
Source: Reality
“Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.”
Source: The Secret History
“Maybe that’s why I’ve always loved this
backyard,” she said, sighing in a girlish way, as if
younger than yesterday. “It doesn’t change, and yet it grows beyond measure.”
Source: Peter
“Maybe that's why I wrote this letter,Alina. Maybe it's a promise-that I'll survive tomorrow and the day after that, and somehow, no matter what it takes, I'll see you safe again...
M.”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“Maybe that's why life is so precious. No rewind or fast forward...just patience and faith.”
“Maybe that’s why most people never move off Staten Island—they’re terrified of hitting traffic on the way out.”
Source: A Very Punchable Face
“Maybe that’s why people come to graveyards. For more goodbyes.”
Source: Postscript
“Maybe that's why superheroes wore capes. Maybe they weren't capes at all, but safety blankets, like the one Aru kept at the bottom of her bed and pulled up under her chin before she went to sleep. Maybe superheroes just tied their blankies around their necks so they'd have a little bit of comfort wherever they went. Because honestly? Saving the world was scary. No harm admitting that.”
Source: Aru Shah and the End of Time
“Maybe that’s why the Westmores never allowed any pets. Hard to keep them off the menu.”
Source: Colorado State of Mind
“Maybe that's why they call it 'falling' in love, because everything that falls eventually breaks.”
“Maybe that's why you demonised them,
turned them into monsters,
because you think monsters are easier
to understand than women who say no to you.”
Source: Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters
“Maybe that's worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.”
Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson
“Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.”
“Maybe that was how a home broke down over the years, as the sound of doors slamming and chairs roughly scraping the floor built up like dust, and the slow drip of gnashing teeth and resentful grumbling bloomed into mildew.”
Source: Idol, Burning
“Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.”
Source: We'll Always Have Summer
“Maybe that was just the way love went - it was something that happened to you, and the best preparation you could hope for was the chance to take a deep breath before the wave of it crashed above you and you were in over your head.”
Source: The Towering Sky
“Maybe that was one of the problems with these men who lived forever, they'd built up an immunity or resistance to affection. Perhaps because when everyone they knew and loved continued to die, they realized the value of distance, of not losing one's self completely to love.”
Source: Love Is Mortal