Quotes about maybe
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“Listen, street punk. You're a guy, and you're a couple inches taller, and maybe forty pounds heavier, and ooh, you're in a gang. But I've survived ten years of Catholic school, and I will cut you off at your knees without a blink. Do you understand?”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

School, Guy, Understanding

“Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned.
"Or," Simon said,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“Oh, hey, maybe I should have mentioned that my friends are retarded douchebags.”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

“It's not Cowardly to make a choice about what you want your life to be. Choosing what's right for you, maybe that's the bravest thing you can do.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Angels Twice Descending

Life

“Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oskar during a visit to his therapist, Dr. Fein
"Happiness, Happiness" (p. 201)
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005)
Context: "I feel too much. That's what's going on." "Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel the wrong ways? "My insides don't match up with my outsides." "Do anyone's inside and outsides match up?" "I don't know. I'm only me." "Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference between the inside and the outside." "But it's worse for me." "I wonder if everyone thinks it's worse for him." "Probably. But it really is worse for me."

Personality

“Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, we might be able to shake things up a little, and find a way to come up heads."
"Or tails," suggested Allie.
"What are youabout?" said Lief.
"Life and death.”

Neal Shusterman book Everlost

Source: Everlost

Life, Death, Way

“Maybe I should, I don't know leave? Because this is starting to sound like one of those reality shows I don't want to be in. Maybe you guys want to take turns in the confessional booth.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Feast of Fools

Guy, Reality

“Otis barreled towards them empty-handed, before apparently realizing that a) he was empty-handed and b) charging towards a large body of water to fight a son of Poseidon was maybe not a good idea.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Idea, Water, Fight

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Death, Personality

“Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.”

Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas

Childhood

“It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

“Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion… Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Life, Money, People, Way

“A human being can be good or bad or right or wrong, maybe. But how can you say a person is illegal? You just can't. That's all there is to it.”

Barbara Kingsolver The Bean Trees

Source: The Bean Trees

Personality

“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.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Variant: 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

Travel

“It was so weird, because usually I was totally nervous talking to guys. But Eli was different. He made me want to say more, not less. Which was maybe not a good thing.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Guy

“I have decided that maybe I want to write when I grow up. I just don't know what I would write.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

Stephen King book Different Seasons

Sometimes quoted as "Nothing good ever dies."
Different Seasons (1982), Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption
Source: The Shawshank Redemption

Hope, Hope

“Maybe he was a good a good whitecoat—like Jeb. And maybe the moon was made of cream cheese.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

“Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom… is realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go. -Anthony Bourdain”

Anthony Bourdain (1956–2018) Chef and food writer

No Reservations - Machu Picchu
Context: It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

Wisdom

“Maybe… you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Love, Hell

“Not true, I got macular degeneration.” Mrs. Teichner winked.
“Or maybe I’m just a degenerate!”

Lisa Scottoline (1955) American writer

“Wow, that was fun. Any place else you want to take me while we’re here? Maybe there’s a darker corner of hell than that hall of flesh-hungry demons, huh? (Sin)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

Hell

“Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.”

Tori Amos (1963) American singer

Source: Death: The High Cost of Living Collected

Way, Feeling

“I'm having the weirdest sense of deja vu right now," said the green caterpiller.
Duh!" said the blue caterpiller. "Do you think, just maybe, that's because you predicted this?"
Oh, yeah."
--The Looking Glass Wars”

Frank Beddor American skier and writer

War, Thinking, Sense

“Such a small, pure object a poem could be, made of nothing but air a tiny string of letters, maybe small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. But it could blow everybody's head off.”

Mary Karr (1955) American writer

Source: Lit

“Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go."
"Ooh, me, too," Eve said.
The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it.
"What? It's what girls do. Get over it.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Boy

“Hey, ah, does anyone want a cookie or something? Oh yeah. A cookie. That would make everything better. Dunked in a shot of tequila, maybe? Or better yet, just the bottle? Yeah, that ought to do it.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

“Snow, here?" Eric was as delighted as a child. "I love snow!"
Why was I not surprised?
"Maybe we will get snowed in together," he said suggestively, waggling his blond eyebrows.”

Charlaine Harris (1951) American writer

Love

“It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.”

John Marsden (1950) author

Source: Darkness, Be My Friend

Thinking, Change, Dead

“I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)”

Mary E. Pearson book The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Forgiveness, Thinking, Change

“Simon didn’t think Meg really wanted to know how to eviscerate a rabbit. He could be wrong about that, but he just couldn’t picture Meg pouncing on a bunny and ripping it open with her teeth.
Maybe if he tried harder to picture it?”

Anne Bishop book Written in Red

Source: Written in Red

Thinking

“Maybe I want a black eye. Did you think of that?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Thinking

“I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe the fear is that
we are less than
we think we are,
when the
actuality of it
is that we are much much more.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

Source: Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness

Fear, Thinking

“Maybe nobody has a right to tell anybody to shut up. Maybe this is how wars get started, because someone tells someone else to shut up, and then no one will apologize.”

Meg Cabot The Princess Diaries

Source: The Princess Diaries

War

“I don't know -- maybe the world has two different kinds of people, and for one kind the world is this completely logical, rice pudding place, and for the other it's all hit-or-miss macaroni gratin.”

Haruki Murakami book The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Source: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

People, World

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Life, People, World, Hell

“You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe I was a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
If you were a mermaid, you said, if you were a mermaid, I was the sea.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

Love, Fish, Water, Sea

“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

Truth

“Ellen could have killed me," Jack said quietly, "but she didn't. She saved my life."
"How come?" Fitch demanded. "After all this?"
Ellen turned scarlet and stared at the ground. "Maybe none of my opponents ever gave me flowers before," she mumbled.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Warrior Heir

Life, Flowers

“Why wouldn't I dance?' Uh, maybe because at first glance he looked like he ate puppies for breakfast and kittens for lunch?”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Alice in Zombieland

Dance

“I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

Women, Children, Thinking

“Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”

Dennis Lehane book Shutter Island

Source: Shutter Island

“When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there… whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

People, Thinking, Time

“Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

People, Star

“Maybe you just saw what you wanted to see. Or maybe you justfelt what you wanted to feel.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Queen of Babble

Feeling

“It was so risky and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Truth, Beauty, Time, Fight

“Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me. MONSTER.”

Walter Dean Myers book Monster

Source: Monster

Life, Feeling

“Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.”

Ann Brashares The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Source: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

Love, People, Madness

“Maybe she couldn't know who she was today. Maybe it was enough to know that she was no longer who she was before.”

Orson Scott Card book Speaker for the Dead

Source: Speaker for the Dead

“It was a bit on the frantic side, maybe because neither one of us had done the metal preparation, so we were both thinking”

Maureen Johnson book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Thinking

“Don't let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return… because I think I'll need you to do that.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Feeling, Thinking

“I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way…. I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Way

“He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.”

Haruki Murakami book Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

Cry

“Maybe age is kinder to us than we think. With my bad eyes, I can't see how bad I look, and with my rotten memory, I have a good excuse for getting out of a lot of stuff.”

Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…

Source: Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!

Age, Thinking, Memory

“I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Love, People, Heart, Hurt

“Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

God, Hate, Truth, Sincerity

“As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

Source: Pretty in Plaid

Life, Books, Help

“When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“So all you want is a kiss?" I asked. A little voice in my head said I was heading for one of those slippery slopes. I told the little voice to shut up.
"Well, maybe more than one. But basically, yeah.”

Jenna Black (1965) American writer

Source: Glimmerglass

Kiss

“It wasn’t a gun wound. I just fell. (Zarek)
No offense, but you’d have to fall of Mount Everest to have those kinds of wounds. (Astrid)
Yeah, maybe next time I’ll remember to take my climbing gear with me. (Zarek)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

Time

“Maybe they didn't make vampires out of ugly people. Or maybe ugly people just didn't want to live forever.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

People

“She wanted to lunge over and kiss him. Well, ew, not really, maybe a hug. Or a hanshake.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Kiss

“Nico," he said gently, "I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Variant: Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
Source: The House of Hades

“I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Source: The Last Olympian

World, Guy, Girl

“Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Feeling

“Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

Life, Search, Heart

“Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other… I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Life, Soul, Search

“Cool,” I said. “You can IM with the Council from campus. Maybe you can command people to do your homework.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

People

“So we're racing the Clare and the Courts," said Julian. "Fantastic. Maybe there's someone else we can piss off. The Spiral Labyrinth? The Scholomance? Interpol?”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

“Maybe the other tributes are out there beating one another senseless. Which would be fine.

- Katniss”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.”

Thomas Szasz (1920–2012) Hungarian psychiatrist

“Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

World

“One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Future

“Problem solving, and I don't mean algebra, seems to be my life's work. Maybe it's everyone's life's work.”

Beverly Cleary (1916) American writer of children's books

Life, Problem

“Maybe if he did really well they'd give him some mouldy apples.”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“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.”

Melissa de la Cruz book The Van Alen Legacy

Source: The Van Alen Legacy

Home, Drink, Heart

“Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on… Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

“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.”

Tana French In the Woods

Source: In the Woods

Love

“The point,' Ms. Conyers continued, "is that no word had one specific definition. Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

Life

“Maybe there is another who sees life not as a flickering candle but as a torch that can illuminate an undiscovered world.”

Jimmy Buffett book A Salty Piece of Land

Source: A Salty Piece of Land

Life, World

“She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversations in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Variant: But she also sensed it wasn't enough. She wanted something else, something different, something more. Passion and romance, perhaps, or maybe quiet conversation in candlelit rooms, or perhaps something as simple as not being second.
Source: The Notebook

Passion

“If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I’ll—” I didn’t get to finish the threat. I think it was the word “naked,” though maybe it was “bed,” but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam”

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Love, Making love, Thinking, Waiting

“To my wonderful readers. Sorry about that apology for that last cliffhanger. I’ll try to avoid cliffhangers in this book. Well, except for maybe a few small ones… because I love you guys.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

Love, Books, Guy

“[…] even in the cruelest human being there can exist a flower of good. Maybe just the tiniest blossom, in need of water and sunlight, but a flower just the same.”

Meg Cabot book Shadowland

Source: Shadowland

Flowers, Water

“I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Life, Truth, World, Thinking

“What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any history.”

Patricia Highsmith book The Price of Salt

Source: The Price of Salt

Smile, History, Past, Future

“Why should I even bother? What's the point, really?"
He thought for a moment. "Who says there has to be a point?" he asked. "Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“Daddy always said the only thing worth begging for was your life, but maybe he was wrong. Maybe sometimes your love is a little bit worth begging for, too.”

Gabrielle Zevin (1977) American writer

Source: All These Things I've Done

Love, Life

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

World

“All genders?' whispered Nudge. 'Aren't there just the two'
I shrugged. 'No idea. Maybe they've created others.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports

Idea

“I think maybe part of what got him into trouble was that he did too much thinking. Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.”

Jon Krakauer book Into the Wild

Source: Into the Wild

People, World, Thinking, Sense

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay

Dead

“And now I have to stop. Because every time I remember this, I have to cry a little by myself. I don't know why something that made me so happy then feels so sad now. Maybe that is the way it is with the best memories.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

Sadness, Way, Feeling, Memory

“Whoever knows you when you are young can look inside you and see the person you once were, and maybe still are at certain times.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: The Marriage of Opposites

Time, Personality

“Maybe-- maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-- never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself?”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden (1952)
Context: Maybe that's the reason," Adam said slowly, feeling his way. "Maybe if I had loved him I would have been jealous of him. You were. Maybe-maybe love makes you suspicious and doubting. Is it true that when you love a woman you are never sure-never sure of her because you aren't sure of yourself? I can see it pretty clearly. I can see how you loved him and what it did to you. I did not love him. Maybe he loved me. He tested me and hurt me and punished me and finally he sent me out like a sacrifice, maybe to make up for something. But he did not love you, and so he had faith in you. Maybe — why, maybe it's a kind of reverse.

Love

“All this hoping for something- or someone- that's maybe hopeless. I'm having a hard time processing what I am supposed to believe, or if I'm even supposed to. There is too much information, and I don't like a lot of it.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Hope, Time

“We’ve been here before, haven’t we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I’m secure in my sexuality.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Jace Herondale and Simon Lewis, pg. 509
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Heavenly Fire (2014)
Context: "Why didn't you say something?"
"Because, it's not like there's animals I can feed on here."
"There's us."
"I don't want to feed on my friends' blood."
"Why not? We've been here before, haven't we? Last time you were starving, I gave you my blood. It was a little homoerotic, maybe, but I'm secure in my sexuality."

Time

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