Best Might Have Been Qoutes
323 Might Have Been quotes by 280 unique authors
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The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.
— Deborah Smith
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Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals…
— Sarah Vowell
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The locker at the end of her bed had no lock, and one of the hinges was busted. She opened it up. There was a…
— Maureen Johnson
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In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me," he whispered. "I love you, Claire." She saw something that…
— Rachel Caine
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And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa, cocoa!'-- it might…
— Dodie Smith
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I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been
— Arthur Ransome
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So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.' Halt gave him a long-suffering look.…
— John Flanagan
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Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those…
— Lydia Millet
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He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.
— Patricia Briggs
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From his soft fur, golden and brown, Goes out so sweet a scent, one night I might have been embalmed in it By giving him…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood as desirable, and…
— Wendell Berry
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What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought…
— Louise Penny
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.
— Edward Gorey
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He had been my almost. My might-have-been. I was afraid of what I wanted most - His kiss. Still, I collected kiss stories. -Susie Salmon
— Alice Sebold
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Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been,…
— Cormac McCarthy
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She loves you," the Prince cried. "She loves you still and you love her, so think of that--think of this too: in all this world,…
— William Goldman
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The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds of graffiti. As…
— Simon R. Green
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They just kept grinning at me from over the stupid sign, Dopey because he's too dumb to know any better, Doc because – well, I…
— Meg Cabot
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Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other…
— Terry Pratchett
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Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly any body to…
— Jane Austen
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In really bad times, the hungriest would gather at his door at nightfall, vying for the chance to earn a few coins to feed their…
— Suzanne Collins
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I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn’t…
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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