M Quotes
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“Maybe you are the key to revival in your church.”
“Maybe you are wandering on the shores, for what lies in the deep sea.”
“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
“Maybe you can imagine this in your own life. We no longer look at the sun but at our phones to see what kind of time has passed. We don't look out of our cells but at our cell, flipping to a social media stream and scrolling through what our friends are doing. While we scroll, we develop a resentment that our lives are less fun and fulfilling than the lives of our friends.
The here and now, the people who are around and present, pale in front of the manicured and curated versions of another person's life. We begin to wonder, like Evagrius, if we have lost the love of our friends, and we begin to believe that there is "none to comfort" us.
So we fill our evenings with overeating, because it feels comforting, or binge-watching our favorite show, because we are so tired that we just need to "relax." We split our attention between the screen of the television and the screen of our phones. Indeed, one of the most effective ways to avoid the gnawing questions of meaning is by staying busy enough to avoid them. A constant flow of information and distraction turns the mind and the heart away from the abyss of asking why. Why do we worry about tomorrow? Why do we toil and reap? What is the treasure of great price that all our lives are working toward?
When we do pause between activities, we try to fill the void. We forget that we are more than our work or the things that we produce. Our busyness represents a profound loss of freedom, and one that occurs through a gradual winnowing away of what it means to be human. We replace that it means to be a person with a shallowness of activity”
Source: Addiction Nation: What the Opioid Crisis Reveals about Us
“Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!”
“Maybe you can let yourself cry too.”
“Maybe you can make art out of unredeemed pain, but only if you're a genius -- Dostoyevsky perhaps.”
Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections on Sixty and Beyond
“Maybe you can’t have it both ways. His life and your life. How do you put two lives together, anyway?”
Source: Summer and the City
“Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.”
“Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you.”
“Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we'll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.”
Source: EyeLeash: A Blog Novel (teenage memoir)
“Maybe you could casually mention to Zoe that I'm not now, nor have I ever been, an axe murderer." "I'll see if I can work it into our next conversation," Flynn promised.”
Source: Nora Roberts' Key Trilogy
“Maybe you could even think 100,000 people are inside each human being. And you drop a novel on that person, and a certain number of those sub-people come alive or get reenergized for some finite time.”
“Maybe you could feel all sorts of things, all of them mutually contradictory.”
Source: Dust
“Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.”
Source: The Truth About Forever
“Maybe you could have picked something a little easier for our first official mission together?" Layla said in a teasing whisper...”
Source: Her Rogue Alpha
“Maybe you could just tell us what you did," I suggested. "Where you went, what you saw, and not mention if Doug was there or not. Just keep it in the first person singular.”
Source: The Disappearance of Darcie Malone
“Maybe you couldn't interfere with people's choices, but you could make it easier for them to make the right ones.”
Source: Delphine Jones Takes a Chance
“Maybe - you didn't have so much control over your life as a kid. So, to avoid disappointment, you learned never to ask yourself what you truly wanted.”
Source: Beach Read
“Maybe you didn't know what people thought of you because they themselves didn't know what they thought of you. Maybe you didn't give us enough to go on, Hannah.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition
“Maybe you don't even need a man to come in stomping around and being all there. Maybe I could love a woman? Maybe I'll end up with a woman. We are humans. Men and women. You don't know who you're going to fall in love with; we fall in love with a person. Not a sex. And looking around, it seems women are just pretty cool anyway.”
Source: Big Bones
“Maybe you don’t have shit besides a skateboard and a Supertramp record, but if you have one true friend you have everything. . .”
Source: Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir
“Maybe you don't know that you're wounded until you receive the salve. The salve that makes everything come back.”
Source: Bliss Montage
“Maybe you don’t know the southside of Chicago....I grew up in a house of addiction, poverty, Government assistance, Divorce, neglect, abandonment, and violence. This wasn’t a unique experience in my neighborhood.
There was a club in my school, and everyone knew who its members were: there was no hiding it. From the stink of your unwashed clothes, to Kids cracking Jokes in the lunchroom about your mom or dad being an addict, or worse. Some kids came to school with fresh bruises every week.
If you were in this club, other students would rip on you. This was to be expected I suppose. But the teachers also looked at you differently. Not with empathy or even pity. More like they looked through you, As if your future was already written on your dirty clothes, and your weary eyes, on your dark skin.”
Source: Taken for Granted: How Conservatism Can Win Back the Americans That Liberalism Failed
“Maybe you don’t need to understand her; maybe you just need to want to.”
Source: Unveiling the Sky
“Maybe you don’t think it’s a date.” A grim smile touched Josh’s mouth
before he turned back to his computer. “But trust me, Jules. Any man would
be an idiot to let you go if there was even a chance with you.”
Source: Twisted Hate
“Maybe you don't have to remember something for it to be true. For it to exist.”
Source: Dead to You
“Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!”
“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”
“Maybe you don't need to do this. Maybe this isn't your moment. But if you do feel the pull of the eternal, then you can't stay away from it.”
“Maybe you doubt, I doubt, don't you? But sure its no help”
“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules
“Maybe you feel as if there were nothing better in the world than driving in a car, listening to music with friends, looking for an all-night donut shop. Nobody says a thing, and it is perfect.”
Source: Stay True
“Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.”
Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.
“Maybe you felt the earthquake a couple of days ago? It was focused in this region."
Earthquake? I hadn't felt anything of the kind.
Because you were a part of it, my love, Amon speaks in my mind. It must have happened when I fucked you.
My eyes flare in shock just as my cheeks redden when I realize he is right.
"Oh, THAT earthquake.”
Source: Fairydale
“Maybe you go to mass every day. But if you live for your own selfish benefit, and have no concern for the difficulties of your neighbour, as if they did not touch you at all, then all you have done is take part in the sacrament in a merely outward way. The sacrifice of the mass, in a spiritual sense, means that we become one body with the Body of Christ, living members of His Church. If your love for things is guided by Christ, if you think all your possessions to be things you hold in trust for the good of all, if you take upon yourself the difficulties and sufferings of your neighbour as if they were your own, then you may take part in mass very fruitfully, because now you take part in a spiritual way…
But to worship Christ with nothing more than outward ceremonies, as if such worship were the height of spirituality, while all the time you are puffed up with self-importance, and condemn other people, and think yourself secure because you live and die in your outward worship: well, the very ordinances of worship that were meant to draw you to Christ will withdraw you from Him. Your religion is a rebellion against the spirit of the Gospel, a falling back into the superstitions and rituals of Judaism ...
The apostle Paul, the foremost defender of spiritual religion, never ceased trying to get the Jews to give up their confidence in outward works and rituals, and to lead them to spiritual realities. Yet I feel that the great majority of Christians have fallen back again into that sickness.”
“Maybe you got a date in the city. You're going to get laid. A stranger, someone new, 'cause you wouldn't take the trouble for someone you already fucked.”
Source: In the Cut
“Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series”
“Maybe you had friends, a girlfriend, a favorite takeout place. Maybe you used to sleep in in the morning, or take long weekend trips to travel around Europe and check out... buildings, or something. Maybe you had dreams. Did you go back to retrieve those?”
Source: Bride
“Maybe you had to be dying to finally get to do what you wanted.I fidgeted around with the puzzle pieces for a while longer, but I wasn't lucky. Nothing seemed to fit without a whole lot of work.Then I had this thought: What if it was enough to realize that you would die someday, that none of this would go on forever? Would that be enough?”
Source: Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“Maybe you had to come close to losing something before you could remember its value.”
Source: The Tenth Circle
“Maybe you had to come close to losing
something before you could remember its
value. Maybe we enjoy the last minute struggle
as it slips through our hands.”
“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
Source: Handle with Care
“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted.”
“Maybe you have already been writing, but never considered a book before. What you have contributed to websites, discussion groups, blogs and membership communities can lead to books. These are great places to flesh out ideas, get reader feedback, and sometimes even catch the attention of an agent, publisher or larger audience. If anything, a well branded presence on the internet positions you in a way where you have the opportunity to become the authority or expert. Do not let any of what you have written online go to waste. Make files and collect all of your information because you may have enough content already written to fill two books!”
Source: Book Power: A Platform for Writing, Branding, Positioning & Publishing
“Maybe you have thought that doing... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."”
“Maybe you have to know anybody awful well to love them but when you have hated somebody for forty-three years you will know them awful well so maybe it's better then maybe it's fine then because after forty-three years they cant any longer surprise you or make you either very contented or very mad.”
Source: Absalom, Absalom!
“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles
“Maybe you have to live under cover for a while before you can find your true character.”