Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.
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RACHAEL RAY Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish mayb... DREW BREES Sometimes she could swear that she saw, in Joe Grey's eyes, a judgment far too perceptive, a watchfu... SHIRLEY ROUSSEAU MURPHY No matter what you're doing. I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or tha... EDY GANEM You know how you can think you know someone or think you know them but maybe you only know them one ... CARRIE RYAN Maybe your empathy's just a comforting lie, you ever think of that? Maybe you think you know how the... PETER WATTS Maybe it’s not about having a beautiful day, but about finding beautiful moments. Maybe a whole da... ANNA WHITE She never thought she was good at making friends. But maybe she was just trying to be friends with t... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN That was the thing about her. When you told her about an incident where you so badly screwed up, hal... SANHITA BARUAH Maybe this is what growing old was like, she thought. Maybe the world gets smaller and smaller until... NAOMI JACKSON You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied.<... JODI PICOULT You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him.... JOHN GREEN I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought, there are so many p... REBECCA KATHERINE MARTIN She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ... ALICE MUNRO Sometimes maybe we want them to get in a little bit bigger hurry, but you just have to understand th... DAVID BERRY It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't sto... STEPHEN CHBOSKY There was no twinkle in his eyes. "Maybe I just love some of you. Maybe not enough." Tige... 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HUGO HAMILTON There's not a whole lot anybody could do, you know, to try to help the families as far as emotional ... JACKIE LEE I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don... ELLIOT MABEUSE no one knows why we are put on this earth i dont think any of them are true i dont even know why we ... DALLY SALAD Rose lived the same life I did, but she doesn’t have PTSD. No bad dreams, no missing memories. Som... PAULA STOKES If you like her, tell her. Maybe she likes you too. DAZZLїиG_Бципу Maybe that's all that praying was, she thought, just wishing good outcomes on other people. KATHARINE MCGEE But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. ... BETTY SMITH I don't know, Jondalar. Maybe you haven't found the right woman. Maybe the Mother has someone specia... JEAN M. AUEL She thrived from chaos, embraced every high and every low. It was the only way she knew how to live.... LAUREN VALENCIA You can never get in her head and know what she was thinking when she killed her daughter and know w... HOWARD CURTIS There might be a time when they need some help. Then you just jump in and you do something. It might... BARNEY ROLING I think it's been his actions. Even from the beginning, they've been, you know, just awkward. He was... DAVE HOLLOWAY You really love her don't you," she said. With all my heart." She looked as sad as I'd eve... NICHOLAS SPARKS If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices... EDDIE VEDDER There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; bu... VIRGINIA WOOLF But here's something that I know about friendship: Sometimes the right thing to do is to not point o... DANA REINHARDT Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, sweeping circumstances, about having everything in ... ANN BRASHARES Who are we to say getting incested or abused or violated or any of those things can’t have their p... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE That's the life, she said to me, as we watched a puppy chase its own tail. That's what I want to be ... JODI PICOULT When she was younger, she felt that he wanted to know everything about her, but she was sometimes af... MICHAEL STEIN You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in the little silver bags, I mean. ... NEIL GAIMAN That’s when I realized that I really loved you.” She sat down on the floor with me. She sp... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think she loves the Phantom. But more like a father. In the end she says, 'you pitiful creature of... KRISTIN KING I feel that everyone has something different that moves them or that appeals to them. Maybe somethin... EDY GANEM But even though she was attractive, there was something else about her that caught his eye. She was ... NICHOLAS SPARKS This girl at 17 really led an army, this girl at 19 really burned at the stake by her own choice. An... LEELEE SOBIESKI She dumped me for the worst reason of all. For absolutely no reason at all...I mean, if she fell in ... BRAD MELTZER I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen her actually relax and sit still in a way that made it ob... SARAH DESSEN She felt one thousand years old. She also felt like maybe she was a condescending brat. She wanted h... MAGGIE STIEFVATER There has always been something enigmatic about Cassie. This is one of the things I like in her, and... TANA FRENCH He told her she could live there as long as she wanted and pay rent. That's what they did. DICK VITALE She's not my nurse but she comes up to Gran and Gramps just the same. "Don't you doubt for a second ... GAYLE FORMAN [Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see,... STEVE GRAND I don't know," I said. "Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why sh... SARAH DESSEN Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The expe... MELVIN BURGESS I just held her hand and tried to imagine the world without us and for about one second I was a good... JOHN GREEN With Scarlett Johansson, I always thought she was pretty, but then when I heard her sing, there was ... CAMERON MONAGHAN Was it really that simple? Choosing a life? ... Maybe you don't fall in love. Maybe you jump. <... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Once, she'd been a pro at decompressing, loved to sit on the back deck of the beach house ... SARAH DESSEN This is a song about talking to the person that you haven't even met yet. Maybe they're rolling arou... JOHN MAYER Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a ... CARSON MCCULLERS No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway." "To make sure Katniss is still... SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The expe... MELVIN BURGESS The problem with playing hide-and-seek with your sister is that sometimes she gets bored and stops l... RAINBOW ROWELL But sleep didn't come. She could hear Jace's soft piano playing through the walls, but that wasn't w... CASSANDRA CLARE I guess relationships are just funny like that. It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL Anyhow, I get distracted a lot," she repeated. She felt like a dry branch, sticking out o... CLARICE LISPECTOR I haven't heard all of it, but what I have heard of Kim's album is good. Maybe because she knew what... ELLIOTT WILSON A stray dog, I might understand," she said. "But this? You are too softhearted." No, Mabry," Ra... HOLLY BLACK You know this girl. Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise... 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Maybe this was what love meant afte... MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read somethi... HELEN HUMPHREYS
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