M Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with M. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?”
Source: The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel
“Maybe this is the point: to embrace the core sadness of life without toppling headlong into it, or assuming it will define your days.”
Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship
“Maybe this is the secret to talking to boys--maybe you just have to be angry all the time.”
Source: Delirium: The Complete Collection: Delirium, Hana, Pandemonium, Annabel, Raven, Requiem
“Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.”
Source: Another Day
“Maybe this is what it means to heal, too; when we offer healing to others even when it wasn’t given to us.”
Source: The Town of Perpetual Autumn
“Maybe this is what the future will look like: fresh, clean water will be so rare it will be guarded by armies. Water as the next oil - the next resource worth going to war over.”
“Maybe this is who I really am.
Not a loner, exactly.
But someone who can be alone.”
Source: Little Failure: A Memoir
“Maybe this is why I sleep only a few hours a month. I don't want to die again. This has become clearer and clearer to me recently, a desire so sharp and focused I can hardly believe it's mine: I don't want to die. I don't want to disappear. I want to stay.”
Source: Warm Bodies and The New Hunger: A Special 5th Anniversary Edition
“Maybe this is why Misty loved him. Loved you. Because you believed in her so much more than she did. You expected more from her than she did from herself.”
Source: Diary: A Novel
“Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full of victims or enemies. It's no wonder Waltraud Wagner, the Austrian Angel of Death, convinced her friends to kill with her. It just seems natural. You and me against the world.”
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.”
Source: A Reading Diary
“Maybe this isn't home, nor ever was- maybe home is where I have to go tonight. Home is the place where when you go there, you have to finally face the thing in the dark.”
Source: It
“Maybe this isn't the right thing to say, but I want you to know: When you ran for the stage, I've never been so proud of you in all my life. You've always been beautiful; you've always been talented. And now I know that your moral compass is perfectly aligned, that you see clearly when things are wrong, and you do everything you can to stop it. As a father, I can't ask for more. I love you America. And I'm so so proud.”
“Maybe this one moment, with this one person, is the very reason we’re here on Earth at this time.”
“Maybe this planet is a paradise for the majority but to me feels like I'm traveling in hell and finding lost angels I must rescue.”
“Maybe this reality is only an illusion. Maybe beyond the dream, life begins where we live love for real.”
Source: Rose From the Moon
“Maybe this restlessness is serving to keep some part of me alive. Or maybe I move to avoid making - making words, friends, and love. I do spread my heart thinly as I go. Will I ever accept that the most mythic, meaningful life might lie in the ordinary? The kingdom of details and daily reprises. For now, I’m stunned by all things static. Scared by the idea that a home might exist for me somewhere.”
Source: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
“Maybe this society, if anything, has become more patriarchal, and that has to be combated.”
“Maybe this time she wanted to be found, and to be found by me.”
Source: Paper Towns
“Maybe this time was different—maybe this love was different. It felt so different; surely that had to mean something. Maybe the year to come would be a good year for both of them. Maybe this time things would work out the way Magnus wanted them to.
Maybe Alexander Lightwood would not break his heart.”
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
“Maybe this was a male-female translation problem. I read an article once that said that when women have a conversation, they're communicating on five levels. They follow the conversation that they're actually having, the conversation that is specifically being avoided, the tone being applied to the overt conversation, the buried conversation that is being covered only in subtext, and finally the other person's body language.
That is, on many levels, astounding to me. I mean, that's like having a freaking superpower. When I, and most other people with a Y chromosome, have a conversation, we're having a conversation. Singular. We're paying attention to what is being said, considering that, and replying to it. All these other conversations that have apparently been going on for the last several thousand years? I didn't even know that they ~existed~ until I read that stupid article, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.”
Source: Cold Days
“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.”
Source: Leviathan
“Maybe this was my punishment, and perhaps justly so. 'It wasn't meant to be', Khala Jamila had said. Or, maybe, it was meant not to be.”
Source: The Kite Runner
“Maybe this was now normal for Olivier. Maybe every now and then he simply wept. Not in pain or sadness. The tears were just overwhelming memories, rendered into water, seeping out.”
Source: The Long Way Home
“Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.”
Source: The Magicians Trilogy
“Maybe this was our last summer as best friends. I feel like something's going to change now and I'm not going to be able to change it back. —Margaret”
Source: Last Summer With Maizon
“Maybe this was what Aunt Peg meant all along - returning was a weird thing. You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe our what came before.”
Source: The Last Little Blue Envelope
“Maybe this was what growing up meant—tackling the huge challenges, whether you were ready for them or not. And trusting that you’d figure out a way to get through it.”
Source: Legacy
“Maybe this was what marriage was, Gilbert mused. Unrelenting unhappiness, but at least you had someone to talk to.”
Source: Find You First
“Maybe this wasn’t a good idea. He didn’t have time to fight an evil symbiot. He had a softball tournament on Sunday.”
Source: Tales of the Dim Knight
“Maybe this Watergate is like the Old Testament. It was visited upon us and maybe were going to benefit from it.”
“Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?”
“Maybe this won't last very long but you feel so right and I could be wrong. Maybe I've been hoping too hard. I've gone this far and it's more than I hope for.”
“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.”
“Maybe this world is hell on another planet, we were put here by mistake?”
“maybe this year
winter will have
mercy and
leave us alone
maybe this year
summer will shine
and we won't be cold”
“Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.”
“Maybe those other kids haven’t given you a reason not to trust them, but they haven’t given you a reason why you should, either. I have.”
Source: The Trials of Renegade X
“Maybe those relationships cracked for a reason—to let the light in.”
Source: Strength Check
“Maybe those sorts of yes-or-no life-and-death decisions are easier to make because they are so black and white. I can cope with them because it's easier. Human emotions, well. . .they're just a fathomless collection of grays and I don't do so well on the midtones.”
Source: The Thursday Next Collection 1-3: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots
“Maybe those who shout the loudest are the ones who envy one the most.”
“Maybe those who smoke
are simply the ones who’ve stopped running
From the truth:
The body is a house
already on fire.
That we are born
into a slow unraveling.”
Source: Time With Trees: 1995–2025, A Collected Work
“Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”
“Maybe time is uncontrollable, and endless, and ... dangerous.”
Source: Kaleidoscope
“Maybe time, itself, didn't heal all wounds. Maybe, in the end, it was people who healed those wounds. Nobody wants to hurt.
Maybe, deep down, all we want is to forgive and be forgiven.”
Source: Hopepunk
“Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it.”
Source: Insurgent
“Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt -- the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it, not even Tobias. Maybe I should not be so afraid of saying anything, because honesty will make me feel lighter.”
“Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.”
Source: Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner
“Maybe to become famous is to reassure yourself that whatever you're lacking inside, you've fulfilled that.”
“Maybe to heal isn't to erase the scar, or even to make the scar. To heal is to cherish the wound.”