Quotes about maybe
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“Maybe,” he said in a slow, rural drawl, “you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy.”
“Well,” I said, “if you’re going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn’t it.”

Jim Butcher (1971) American author

Source: Hex Appeal

“I often warn people: "Somewhere along the way, someone is going to tell you, 'There is no "I" in team.' What you should tell them is, 'Maybe not. But there is an "I" in independence, individuality and integrity.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven't ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Anita's musings on knives; unidentified edition, pp. 304-305
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Narcissus In Chains (2001)
Context: I stepped out of the car on the rat king's arm, like a trophy wife--except for the wrist sheaths and the two folding knives hidden in my clothing. Somehow I think trophy wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But, Hey, I haven't met a trophy wife, maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs. Sometimes four inches will do the job, but to be really sure, I like to have six. Funny how phallic objects are always more useful the bigger they are. Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

Way, Thinking, Heart

“Maybe one day it will be just you and me, my little blueberry," Magnus said conversationally. "But not for a long, long time. We'll take care of him, you and I. Won't we?"
Max Lightwood made a happy burbling sound that Magnus took as agreement.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

Time, Happiness

“Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

“Maybe kissing is sort of like nature's coffee.
-Jonathan”

Scott Westerfeld book Blue Noon

Source: Blue Noon

Coffee, Kiss, Nature

“Maybe you’re not willing to give up a lover who’s colder than you are.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Narcissus in Chains

Source: Narcissus in Chains

“I don't ever want to live in a world where something like mercy… or maybe it's compassion… is thechoice.”

Jonathan Maberry book Rot & Ruin

Source: Rot & Ruin

“Maybe it’s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“You wanted happiness, I can’t blame you for that, and maybe a mouth sounds idiotic when it blathers on about joy but tell me you love this, tell me you’re not miserable.”

Richard Siken (1967) American poet

Source: Crush

Love, Joy, Happiness

“Fair isn't fair, Dean. Like I'm supposed to help you because fair is fair? Try I need you to help me so I wont rip out your spine and beat you with it. I might respond to that, maybe.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“I've found you can ignore half of what Dox tells you and not miss much-except for maybe they occasional complaint that you're spending too much.”

Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer

Source: The Final Empire

“So I took her hand, and I don't know what everybody else heard, but to me it sounded like a slow dance: a little sad, but maybe a little hopeful, too.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Sadness, Hope, Dance

“… It's hard to make changes. Things get so comfortable and you don't want to move. Maybe it would do you good to be a little uncomfortable for a while, and do something different…”

Danielle Steel book Legacy

Source: Legacy

“Maybe girls need an island to find themselves. Maybe they need a place where no one's is watching them so they can be who they really are”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

“It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

“Andrea raised her hand. “This is the hand that slapped Aunt B.”
“Maybe you should have it gold-plated.”
“Here, you can touch it, since you’re my best friend.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

“I love you, Katie. You might not be ready to say those words now, and maybe you'll never be able to say them, but that doesn't change how I feel about you.”

Nicholas Sparks book Safe Haven

Source: Safe Haven

Love, Feeling, Change

“Sometimes I think that maybe we are just stories.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

“Try a rocket launcher. Think maybe you could manage to hit me with that?”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

“Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know.
Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

“Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"The Ponds"
House of Light (1990)

“But maybe it's better to go after something, and not get it, than to not even try.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

“I'm dying of boredom. Or maybe just dying.”

Megan Whalen Turner (1965) American children's writer

“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.”

Gabrielle Zevin book Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

Source: Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

“Maybe instead of stalking her, you should go out with someone else."

He sighed. "You don't think I've tried? How can anyone compare? You might not believe this, but there is no one like Ageline at this school.”

Richelle Mead book The Fiery Heart

Source: The Fiery Heart

School, Thinking

“Maybe the Merlin was right. Maybe its better to look stupid but strong, than it is to look smart but weak, I don't know. I'm not sure I want to believe that the world stage bears that strong a resemblance to high school.”

Jim Butcher Turn Coat

Source: Turn Coat

Stupidity, World, School, Strong

“Here we are. Maybe I should warn you before we enter…(Asmodeus)
(Jericho stepped past him and threw open the door.)
Or maybe not. Let’s just barge in and be surprised, shall we? (Asmodeus)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Warrior

“Maybe everyone is just trying to protect me by lying to me. I don’t care. I’m sick of people lying to me for my own good. Because really it’s mostly for their own good. Lie to Katniss about the rebellion so she doesn’t do anything crazy.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Katniss (p. 118)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)

People, Lie, Lying

“When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you got two new people. Maybe that means — hell, it's complicated.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter

People, Hell, Change

“Can I…I mean, do you mind if I sleep up here? If you don't, I, um, understand. I just—"
"Yes." The word bolted out of me. "Yes, please. Maybe I'll be able to sleep if you're here.”

Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer

Source: Jealousy

Understanding, Sleep

“Maybe that is the best lesson I learned in my first semester at Yale, because if I had gone to a less-demanding school and continued to sail along on the top, I am sure I would never have attained the subsequent achievements in my life.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

Life, School, Learning

“Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.”

Emma Donoghue Room

Source: Room

“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”

Clare Morrall (1952) British writer

Source: The Language Of Others

People, World, Happiness

“Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”

Jeannette Walls book The Glass Castle

Source: The Glass Castle

“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.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Source: Key of Knowledge

“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.”

Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

"Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more!"
Source: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957)

Christmas, Christmas

“Maybe stories are just data with a soul.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

“Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Sadness, Memory

“We're the ones who will fill in the blank places. Maybe we can make it different.”

Lois Lowry Gathering Blue

Source: Gathering Blue

“Really, these wizards! You'd think no one had ever had a cold before! Well, what is it?" she asked, hobbling through the bedroom door onto the filthy carpet.
"I'm dying of boredom," Howl said pathetically. "Or maybe just dying.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

“If you don’t live though and drop dead from it, can the Simi eat you? Akri says the Simi can’t eat no living people, but he never said no doubt them newly dead people. Maybe that’s why he don’t let me near them fresh dead. (Simi)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“It did cross our minds at one point. Actually it seemed to keep crossing them. Maybe we should put in a crosswalk.
Ash”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.”

Poppy Z. Brite Lost Souls

Source: Lost Souls

“Maybe I should drive,” Troy said. “She knows what she’s doing,” Mad Rogan said. I sniffed. “What?” “The fragrance of a genuine compliment from Mad Rogan. So rare and sweet.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

“There was no twinkle in his eyes.
"Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough."
Tiger Lily blinked at him, and she didn't understand how anyone could only love a part. Her greedy heart didn't work that way.”

Jodi Lynn Anderson American children's writer

Source: Tiger Lily

Love, Way, Understanding, Heart

“A lot can change between planning something and actually doing it. But maybe all that really matters is that anything is different at all.”

Sarah Dessen Lock and Key

Source: Lock and Key

“Maybe television causes cancer, Garp thinks; but his real irritation is a writer's irritation: he knows that wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.”

John Irving book The World According to Garp

Source: The World According to Garp

Thinking, Reading

“… maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.”

Ally Carter I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You

“Maybe there was a magic stronger than spells. Maybe the soulmate principle was responsible, and if two people were meant to be together, nothing could keep them apart.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!"

Homer Simpson”

Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

“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

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

Bono (1960) Irish rock musician, singer of U2

“How come all the harmless people were so lame? Maybe that was the definition of safe.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

“Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person's eyes maybe died back in childhood.”

Philip K. Dick book A Scanner Darkly

Source: A Scanner Darkly

Imagination, Childhood, Personality

“But then again, maybe bad things happen because it’s the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“Maybe that's what you got when you stood over your grief, facing it finally. A sense of its depths, its area, the distance across, and the way over or around it, whichever you chose in the end.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

“Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decided to destroy it. He couldn't imagine why. Maybe they hadn't like the deep-tissue massage? Maybe they'd gotten bad manicures?”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

“When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.”

Sue Monk Kidd book The Secret Life of Bees

Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)

“All I really wanted to do was cuddle back under the blankets, maybe with a certain stuffed toy penguin I knew. Yeah, hiding sounded good.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Circus of the Damned

Source: Circus of the Damned

“Hunting party," Horace said
Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically.
"You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Halt's Peril

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

Feeling, Strong

“Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Angel

Dreams, Feeling, Joy

“But you have to figure that if it’s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

“Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us."
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway.”

Dean Koontz book The Taking

Source: The Taking

“Maybe if I didn't say anything about what happened, we could get back to the way we were. Ignoring a problem was a perfectly acceptable way to deal with it, as long as both people agree never to bring it up again.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: The Good, the Bad, and the Undead

People, Way, Problem

“It was the building from the drawing in my brain.
And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: The Angel Experiment

Thinking, Drawing

“This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.”

Sarah Dessen book The Truth About Forever

Source: The Truth About Forever

World, Chance, Time, Night

“People can never own people but whether I can be with him or not right now, the answer is no. Not now. Maybe in another time.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Where Rainbows End

“Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Maybe there were a hundred different ways to fall in love.”

Mary E. Pearson book The Kiss of Deception

Source: The Kiss of Deception

“Maybe that was why she couldn't cry, she realized, staring dry-eyed at the ceiling. Because what was the point in crying when there was no one there to comfort you? And what was worse, when you couldn't even comfort yourself?”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.”

Jennifer Weiner (1970) American writer

Source: Certain Girls

“Any moment now…" The girl [Calypso] stared out at the water.
No magical raft appeared.
"Maybe it got stuck in a traffic," Leo said.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Girl, Water, Appearance

“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

Way, Feeling, Selfishness

“The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.”

Will Ferguson (1964) Canadian writer, especially humor about Canada

Source: Happiness

“He knew I'd seen everything in that alley, that I'd stood there and done nothing. He knew that I'd betrayed him and yet he was rescuing me once again, maybe for the last time.”

Khaled Hosseini book The Kite Runner

Source: The Kite Runner

“I thought we’d turned a corner. Maybe we did, but we hit a brick wall anyway.”

Sylvia Day book Bared to You

Source: Bared to You

“To quote the Tsalagi, you should never allow your yesterday to use up too much of today. The past is gone and tomorrow is at best a maybe. Live for this moment because it may be all you'll ever have.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

“If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.”

Gary D. Schmidt book The Wednesday Wars

Source: The Wednesday Wars

“Girl, are you on medication?” Nurse Debra asked.
“No, of course not,” Madison answered impatiently.
“Maybe you should be,” Debra muttered.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Sexiest Vampire Alive

“Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theories of magic by the lifting of a single bushy eyebrow.”

Cassandra Clare book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

Communication, Time

“They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.”

Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator

Source: Buffy the Vampire Slayer: No Future for You

Pain, Way, Forgiveness, Hurt

“Maybe it's good to put things in perspective, but sometimes, I think that the only perspective is to really be there.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Maybe when we die, the first thing we’ll say is, 'I know this feeling. I was here before.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise

“What am I supposed to do,
Sit around and wait for you?
Well I can't do that,
And there's no turning back.
I need time to move on,
I need love to feel strong.
Cause I've got time to think it through,
And maybe I'm too good for you!”

Cher (1946) American singer and actress

Love, Feeling, Thinking, Strong

“What does all this mean finally, I kept asking like a college kid. Why does it make me want to cry? Maybe it’s that we are all outsiders, we are all making our own unusual way through a wilderness of
normality that is just a myth.”

Anne Rice Exit to Eden

Source: Exit to Eden

“Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Clary to Jace, pg. 314
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.”

Tim Burton (1958) American filmmaker

People, Passion

“Some stories don’t have happy endings. Even love stories. Maybe especially love stories.”

Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale

Source: The Nightingale

Love, Happiness

“All motion is relative. Maybe it's you who've moved away by standing still.”

Jerome Lawrence Inherit the Wind

Source: Inherit the Wind

“How do you prove we exist? Maybe we don't.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

“Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!"
"Roooaaarrr!"
"Maybe not," Grover corrected.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“I'll be the way I was when I first met him. Then maybe he'll like me again. I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker

Love, People, Way

“Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood and squinted at my reflection. A black eye. Swell.”

Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym

Source: For a Few Demons More

“Oh, yeah?" Leo growled. "Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

“Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“Human beings are free except when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me—to find out what you're good for. We might both do despicable things, Ender, but if humankind survives, then we were good tools.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game