Quotes about might
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“All you imagined, no matter how wild it might seem, was no more than a disguised version of what you already knew.”

Stephen King book The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

Source: Song of Susannah

“A kid might help another kid who fell into a river, and a kid might help another kid search for a lost baseball, but there isn't a kid I've met who will help another kid out of a humiliating situation. We just aren't built that way.”

David Lubar (1954) Children's writer and game programmer

Source: Hidden Talents

Way, Search, Help

“These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Color

“Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.”

Kóbó Abe book The Woman in the Dunes

Part 2, Ch. 27
The Woman in the Dunes (1962)

Color

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: A Mad Zombie Party

Strong

“Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war.”

Dan Brown book The Lost Symbol

Source: The Lost Symbol

Death, War, World, Imagination

“i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.”

Francesca Lia Block book Wasteland

Source: Wasteland

“But if we’re going to kill them all, we might as well make an occasion of it.”
Toshak shrugged. “Do as you wish,” he said. “Occasion or not, as long as they’re all dead, I’m happy.”

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

Source: Erak's Ransom

Happiness, Dead

“You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself”

Ken Kesey book One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Pain, Appearance

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”

Orson Scott Card Enchantment

Source: Enchantment

Beauty, Fools, Sleep

“when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Stupidity, Way, Time

“As for her charmspeak, she’d gotten so powerful it made Leo nervous. If she told him to eat his vegetables, he might actually do it.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

Diana Gabaldon (1952) American author

Books, Thinking, Reading

“I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.”

Sarah Dessen book Keeping the Moon

Source: Keeping the Moon

Way

“You could be
the leaf that never falls from the tree
you could be
the sun that never leaves the sky
this might be
the happy ending without the ending
this might be
a reason to try”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: How They Met, and Other Stories

Happiness, Tree, Sun

“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”

Jonathan Stroud book The Ring of Solomon

Source: The Ring of Solomon

“But I suppose there might be good in things, even if we don't see it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

Source: A Little Princess

“What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Dreams, Color, Soul

“Do your thing, Ms. Lane. you might be criminally young, but the night is not.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Night

“Hop in? Dude, are you out of your ever-loving mind? I can’t touch this. I might leave a fingerprint or something. (Nick)
Oh the horror. Guess I’ll have to trade the piece of junk in and get a new one if that happens. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Love

“I loved you and you destroyed me. You took my heart and ripped it up. You might as well have staked me.”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

Source: Last Sacrifice

Love, Heart

“I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if I were on the verge of death-plankton maybe."
-Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

Death

“i can't understand her"
well son, you might as well try to understand the sun”

Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven

Source: The Fires of Heaven

Understanding, Sun

“Never pray for justice, because you might get some.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

Justice

“No matter what form the relationship might take, he was the only person she could picture sharing her life with.”

Haruki Murakami book Sputnik Sweetheart

Source: Sputnik Sweetheart

Life, Personality

“Truth might be stranger than fiction, but it needs a better editor.”

David Benioff book City of Thieves

Source: City of Thieves

Truth

“I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 11 : The Dragon in My Garage, p. 180
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Context: I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.

World, Understanding, Thinking

“I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Reading

“No real lady would let a dress that might have been worn by a stranger touch her skin.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopeless a thing as it might have been.”

Patricia Briggs book Bone Crossed

Source: Bone Crossed

Dead

“"Is," "is." "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.”

Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath

The Historical Illuminatus as spoken by Sigismundo Celine
Source: Nature's God

Sense

“Today I am a woman torn between the terror that everything might change and the equal terror that everything might carry on exactly the same for the rest of my days.”

Paulo Coelho book Adultery

Source: Adultery

Change

“The Cheesecake Factory is a great business model, but if you take your wife there for your 25th wedding anniversary, you might not reach your 26th.”

Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer

Business, Wedding

“… she opened the door very slowly and carefully, half hiding behind it, as if badly frightened of what might be waiting for her on the other side. And considering that it was me waiting, this showed rare common sense.”

Jeff Lindsay book Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Source: Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Sense, Waiting

“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”

Wally Lamb book I Know This Much Is True

Source: I Know This Much Is True

Pain, Way

“No good has ever come from feeling guilty, neither intelligence, policy, nor compassion. The guilty do not pay attention to the object but only to themselves, and not even to their own interests, which might make sense, but to their anxieties.”

Paul Goodman (1911–1972) American novelist, playwright, poet and psychotherapist

Feeling, Intelligence, Sense

“He was a worried man (I'm stretching the term a bit here, I know. By now, in his mid to late teens, he might just about have passed for a man. When seen from behind. At a distance. On a very dark night).”

Jonathan Stroud book Ptolemy's Gate

Source: Ptolemy's Gate

Night

“I really believe that if I were not a writer, not a creator, not an experimenter, I might have been a very faithful wife. I think highly of faithfulness. But my temperament belongs to the writer, not to the woman”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Faith, Thinking

“I'm looking for what might be called a body language. One thing I do is stick a vibrator up my cunt and start writing -- writing from the point of orgasm and losing control of the language and seeing what that's like.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

“That’s the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It’s still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.”

Monique Duval (1924–2014) Canadian journalist

Smile, Dreams, Way, Home

“Vivian, I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient I've brought you someone else's."

"Rafe you jerk, this is a sheep's heart.”

Annette Curtis Klause Blood and Chocolate

Variant: I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.
Source: Blood and Chocolate

Jerk, Heart

“They might be kittens," she said hopefully.
"They're stalking us."
"They might be shy."
"I don't think it's kittens, Valkyrie."
"Puppies, then?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Playing with Fire

Thinking

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Way, Dance

“Little by little, the old world crumbled, and not once did the king imagine that some of the pieces might fall on him.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

World, Imagination

“If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.”

Yann Martel book Beatrice and Virgil

Source: Beatrice and Virgil

“His quiet certainty made the ground beneath my feet feel solid. Like someday everything might actually be okay.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Blue-Eyed Devil

Feeling

“You look like a handsome young man…although you might want to zip your fly.
Mom!
What? Should I have not told you and left it for everyone else to notice at the dance?”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Moms, Dance, Flying

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Life

“There are many ways a self-respecting (not to mention sane) teenage girl might react to having a teenage boy suddenly in her bedroom in the middle of the night.
Hit.
Panic.
Flail.
Freeze.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

Way, Girl, Boy, Night

“Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Nature

“Dying for love might be pitiable, but it wasn't much different, finally, from any other kind of dying.”

Richard Yates book Cold Spring Harbor

Source: Cold Spring Harbor

Love

“He smiles a lot. But I think there might be worms inside him making him smile.”

Stephen King book The Stand

Source: The Stand

Smile, Thinking

“If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Source: Frankenstein

Hunger, Chance

“Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.”

Anne Rice book The Vampire Lestat

Source: The Vampire Lestat

Hell

“The garden suggests there might be a place where we can meet nature halfway.”

Michael Pollan (1955) American author, journalist, activist, and professor of journalism

Nature

“Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.”

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (1940) American writer

Smile, Good Morning, Cute

“One day you may kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”
“Right, and one day my prince might come.”
“I doubt he’ll be a prince, Ms. Lane. Men rarely are.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Men, Kiss

“The next time you face a room full of strangers… you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: It Happened One Autumn

Time, Waiting

“But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.”

Haruki Murakami book After Dark

Source: After Dark

Feeling, Personality

“O God, I love you to the edge of madness, Venetia, but I'm not mad yet--not so mad that I don't know how disastrous it might be to you--to us both! You don't realize what an advantage I should be taking of your innocence!”

Georgette Heyer book Venetia

Source: Venetia

Love, God, Madness

“… you expect me to fall on my back with my legs spread."
"Not necessarily…. You can fall on your hands and knees if you prefer. Or against the wall. Or on the kitchen counter. I suppose I might let you be on top, if you make it worth my while.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.”

Marguerite Duras book The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Source: The Ravishing of Lol Stein

Waiting

“The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundred years after we were dead. We'd never see it."

"But it'd be there.”

James Jones book From Here to Eternity

Source: From Here to Eternity

World, Smile, Change, Dead

“Mylife might be little and boring, but at least it’s mine - not some assembly-line, secondhand, hand-me-down life.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Rant

Source: Rant

Life

“Ambien might have mentally just tossed my salad. WITH CROUTONS.”

Jen Lancaster (1967) American writer

“… in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

Dean Koontz book Dead and Alive

Source: Dead and Alive

Imagination, Universe

“You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Love, Hate

“I stopped watching for ridicule, the scorpion's tail hidden in his words. He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Source: The Song of Achilles

People, Heart

“Star light, star bright, the first star I see tonight. I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight. I wish not to cry.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Star, Light, Cry

“And since I’m going to be in the neighborhood, you thought I might do as an escort? To an orgy?”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

“I'll take the cemetery," Kane said. He didn't sound excited. Rather, he sounded resigned. "The club might collapse if I go.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”

Paul Karl Feyerabend book Against Method

Source: Against Method: Outline of an Anarchistic Theory of Knowledge

Fear, Imagination, Failure, Teachers

“An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“There still might be a place for us somewhere.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you might strike out, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.”

Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun

Variant: People want to be bowled over by something special. Nine times out of ten you can forget, but that tenth time, that peak experience, is what people want. That's what can move the world. That's art.
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun

People, World, Art, Time