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323 Might Have Been quotes by 280 unique authors

And what an example of the power of dress young Oliver Twist was! Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he… — Charles Dickens
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde
People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.… — Paulo Coelho
There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question… — ZoÃ« Heller
... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks… — Louisa May Alcott
I remember the feeling. Whenever my father got so absorbed in a book that we might have been in visible I felt like taking a… — Cornelia Funke
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… — Anais Nin
Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
All at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other; hopelessly, I should add, because that frenzy of mutual possession might… — Vladimir Nabokov
Life is too short to dwell on what might have been. — Hillary Clinton
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It… — Haruki Murakami
We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of survivors, thoughts of so much… — Charles Dickens
Mr Lorry asks the witness questions: Ever been kicked? Might have been. Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at… — Charles Dickens
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been. — Kurt Vonnegut
My own feeling about JJ, without knowing anything about him, was that he might have been a gay person, because he had long hair and… — Nick Hornby
Marc’s hand tightened visibly around Kevin’s fingers, his digits going white. Again. Both men clenched their jaws, Kevin in pain, and Marc in an obvious… — Rachel Vincent
Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and… — Yann Martel
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about… — Charles Dickens
Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
...the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you’ve been to the dentist or aches like… — Robert Penn Warren
We can never know what might have been but what is to come is another matter entirely — C.S. Lewis
The merest accident of microgeography had meant that the first man to hear the voice of Om, and who gave Om his view of humans,… — Terry Pratchett
You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done. — Wendelin Van Draanen
Things might have been different if she hadn't been able to drift; if she'd had to concentrate on her next meal, instead of dwelling on… — Margaret Atwood
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented the missionary position. — Janet Evanovich

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