Perhaps Quotes

“You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different, and I'm sorry I let you go, yes, but you made the choice. You left me Perhapsless, stuck in your goddamned labyrinth. And now I don't even know if you chose the straight and fast way out, if you left me like this on purpose. And so I never knew you, did I? I can't remember, because I never knew.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

“forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
and perhaps it will be pleasing to have remembered these things one day”
― Virgil, Eclogues. Georgics. Aeneid, Books 1–6

“Life is too long to say anything definitely; always say perhaps.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“Perhaps I am broken, he conceded silently, but broken bones heal stronger, and I will have my day in the sun.”
― Peter V. Brett, The Desert Spear

“She loves him so
but he didn't stay.
The wind can't blow
this storm away.”
― Phoebe Stone, Romeo Blue

“Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to "give up". Tell them "not me".”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!

“Look behind you now.
Do you feel in your heart a slight hastening of its beat, and a powerful sense that something momentous is about to happen?
... Perhaps, then, this is the hour that Mary Hightower takes to the sky with thousands Afterlights heading toward Memphis.
... Perhaps this is the moment that Nick, the Chocolate Ogre, arrives in the same city in search for Allie, only to find that he has no idea where to look.
... Perhaps this is the very instant that a monster called the McGill arrives there as well, aching to ease his pain by sharing his misery - not only with his new minions, but with anyone he can.
... And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the covergence of the wrong, of the right, and the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep.... For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of doubt, which is which.”
― Neal Shusterman, Everwild

“Twelve dead?” I said. “Jesus.”
― Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War

“May be you are gone,but that doesn’t make me come back”
― Munia Khan

“Quizá nuestras almas se tocaron debajo de ese árbol. Quizá decidí amarla. Quizás el amor no era nuestra elección.”
― Tarryn Fisher, Thief

“Obviously, a lot of people involved with Volkswagen's emissions were aware of the diesel car software cheat. One has to wonder how many of them tried to stop it and perhaps were demoted or lost their jobs over trying to prevent the secret Volkswagen car emissions fraud?”
― Steven Magee

“There sits the skiff – over there perhaps is the entryway to the great nothing. But who wants to board this “perhaps”?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“Perchance, one day you wake in a tub
of cold blood come warm. Then, will you let
this whole forest of hurt love you?”
― stephanie roberts, rushes from the river disappointment (Volume 53)

“Is hypoxic damage reversible? Perhaps.”
― Steven Magee

“So I don't care to be too definite about anything. I have a lot of edges called Perhaps and almost nothing you can call Certainty.”
― Mary Oliver, Blue Horses

“Perhaps it would just be easier if I weren’t here!” “Perhaps it would be easier if we did not get married!”
― Emily E.K. Murdoch, Ten Lords a Leaping

“perhaps
none of this
made sense
perhaps
all of this
was evanescence”
― Dominic Riccitello