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> [“Maybe if I hadn’t been so hell-bent on not becoming my parents, I could have saved Charlie. Maybe I would have been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-king/maybe-if-i-hadn-t-been-so-hell-bent-on-not-becoming-my-parents-i/)

[A.S. King](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-king/)

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> [Maybe he hadn't thought the war through. It had seemed like simple fun when he had first pictured it, with a glorious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dave-eggers/maybe-he-hadn-t-thought-the-war-through-it-had-seemed-like-simple-fun/)

[Dave Eggers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dave-eggers/)

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> [ Maybe she should cut the guy a little slack, \[...\] Maybe Thorne had been a no-show because something bad happened to him… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/maybe-she-should-cut-the-guy-a-little-slack-maybe-thorne-had-been-a/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“I prayed maybe he hadn't seen me after all, that maybe he'd taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jennifer-niven/i-prayed-maybe-he-hadn-t-seen-me-after-all-that-maybe-he-d-taken-off/)

[Jennifer Niven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jennifer-niven/)

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> [“The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristine place of fantasy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeanette-winterson/the-truth-is-that-i-ve-spent-all-my-life-with-my-binoculars-trained/)

[Jeanette Winterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeanette-winterson/)

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