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Source: EDGAR ALLAN POE: 72 Short Stories and Novels & 80+ Poems; Including Essays, Letters & Biography (Illustrated): Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…

“In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and a love of blood and this is a thing that even God--who knows all that can be known--seems powerless to change.”

Source: The Border Trilogy

“She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world, you might have been happy, genuinely happy. Not one couple in a century has that chance, not really, no matter what the storybooks say, but you could have had it, and so, I would think, no one will ever suffer a loss as great as you.”

Thinking World Has Beens Stills Matter Might Suffering Chance Loss Century Love You This World Couple No Matter What Cried Might Have Been Still Love You

Book:The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As usual, someone had spelt Cthulhu wrongly.”

Kind Has Beens Might Wall All Kinds Usual Cream Might Have Been Here And There Graffiti

Book:Something from the Nightside

Source: Something from the Nightside

“They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I guess because he might have been glad to see me. Doc's weird that way. Sleepy, the oldest, just stood there, looking … well, sleepy.”

Knows Way Wells Has Beens Might Stupid Glad Dumb Might Have Been Sleepy Grinning

Book:Love You to Death

Source: Love You to Death

People Firsts Humans Looks Has Beens Might Running Belief Horse Terror Contrary Scream Might Have Been Contrary To Popular Belief

Book:Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)

“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to love." (of Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth, Persuasion)”

Has Beens Enough Body Might Sides Half Attraction Captains Persuasion Might Have Been Anne Elliot

Author:Jane Austen

“In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their families by selling their bodies. Had I been older when my father died, I might have been among them. Instead I learned to hunt.”

Has Beens Body Might Father Chance Doors Died Selling Coins Hunts Might Have Been Bad Times Father Died Nightfall My Father Died

Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy

Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy

“I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet – only science would put them on the same tree.”

Thinking Feels Has Beens Different Might Night Tree Mom Dad Kissing Species Beast Might Have Been Bedtime Night Thinking

Book:Flipped

Source: Flipped

“I might have been eleven years old and a little socially immature, but I recognized a gauntlet being thrown down when I saw it, and I had no choice but to take it up.”

Years Littles Has Beens Might Choices Saws Thrown Might Have Been Eleven Immature Gauntlet

Book:If I Stay

Source: If I Stay

“No one so dislikes being punished unjustly as the person who might have been punished justly on scores of previous occasions, if he had only been found out.”

Ifs Persons Has Beens Might Found Occasions Score Dislike Might Have Been

Book:Tales of St Austin's

Source: Tales of St Austin's

“The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A deep breath might have calmed her, but she couldn't draw one. She wondered if she was ill, and she even thought briefly that she might have been poisoned. She felt Attolia reach out and take her hand. To the court it was unexceptional, hardly noticed, but to Eddis it was an anchor, and she held on to it as if to a lifeline. Sounis was looking at her with concern. Her responding smile was artificial.”

“It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.”

Has Beens Might Chance Destiny Notion Relative Might Have Been Flamboyant

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“You are determined to hate him [Snape], Harry,” said Lupin with a faint smile. “And I understand; with James as your father, with Sirius as your godfather, you have inherited an old prejudice. By all means tell Dumbledore what you have told Arthur and me, but do not expect him to share your view of the matter; do not even expect him to be surprised by what you tell him. It might have been on Dumbledore’s orders that Severus questioned Draco.”

Mean Has Beens Said Matter Might Hate Order Father Views Share Prejudice Determined Might Have Been Arthur Hate Him Snape Sirius Draco

Author:J. K. Rowling

“These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.”

Source: The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner; with a biographical account of Defoe

“But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.”

Has Beens Might Might Have Been

Book:Billy Budd and Other Tales

Source: Billy Budd and Other Tales

“He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.”

Heart Has Beens Said Ends Might Care Dies Naive Might Have Been Sleeves Cynic

Author:Colum McCann

“It's just the way things are. And you can't dwell on what might have been. You have to look at what is.”

Way Looks Has Beens Might Might Have Been

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“We might have been ready to offer sympathy, but in actuality there were stronger reasons to want to congratulate her for having found such a powerful motive to feel sad. We should have envied her for having located someone without whom she so firmly felt she could not survive, beyond the gate let along in a bare student bedroom in a suburb of Rio. If she had been able to view her situation from a sufficient distance, she might have been able to recognise this as one of the high points in her life.”

“You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.”

Has Beens Might Might Have Been

Book:The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill

Source: The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill

“Was it - was she making a real prediction?' Dumbledore looked mildly impressed. 'Do you know, Harry, I think she might have been,' he said thoughtfully. 'Who'd have thought it? That brings her total of real predictions up to two. I should offer her a pay raise.”

Thinking Knows Should Has Beens Said Two Real Might Pay Offers Raises Do You Know Impressed Predictions Might Have Been

Author:J. K. Rowling

“And it seemed hard to believe that these people who were so close to me couldn’t see how desperate I was, or if they could they didn’t care enough to do anything about it, or if they cared enough to do anything about it they didn’t believe there was anything they could do, not knowing—or not wanting to know—that their belief might have been the thing that made the difference.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Has Beens Made Hard Enough Might Care Belief Differences Knowing Desperate Not Knowing Might Have Been Hard To Believe

Book:Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

“Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won.”

Ifs Heart Has Beens Stills Hands Might Eye Faces Saws Feet Proud Weapons Shots Silent Breasts Conquest Might Have Been Arrows Softness Rochester Sardonic Mr Rochester

Book:Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe

Source: Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Has Beens Feelings Might Happens Wonder Regret Findings Shoulders Looking Back Ignored Might Have Been Message In A Bottle Letter In A Bottle

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

World Long Has Beens Might Purpose Space Taken Clear Empty Filled Might Have Been Something Better Cold Mountain

Book:Cold Mountain

Source: Cold Mountain

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest.”

Firsts Has Beens Might Able Wanted Boys Happened Summer Understood Hardest My Sister Might Have Been

Book:That Summer

Source: That Summer

“Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”

Has Beens Sometimes Might Hurt Might Have Been

Author:Nora Roberts

“ʺWhere is it?ʺ I asked. ʺLexington, Kentucky.ʺ ʺOh for Godʹs sake,ʺ I moaned. ʺWhy not the Bahamas? Or the Corn Palace?ʺ Dimitri tried to hide a smile. It might have been at my expense, but if Iʹd lightened his mood, I was grateful. ʺIf we leave right now, we can reach him before morning.ʺ I glanced around. ʺTough choice. Leave all this for electricity and plumbing?ʺ Now Sydney grinned. ʺAnd no more marriage proposals.ʺ ʺAnd weʹll probably have to fight Strigoi,ʺ added Dimitri. I jumped to my feet. ʺHow soon can we go?ʺ”

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

World Way Firsts Believe Has Beens Might Easier Hardest Hardest Thing Might Have Been

Book:The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

Source: The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules

“You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth, people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lightning strikes a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that you might have been on. When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole.”

“With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence. It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad.”

Source: Five Classic Animal Adventures: The Jungle Book, The Story of Doctor Dolittle, The Call of the Wild, The Wind in the Willows, and Black Beauty

“She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance.”