Maybe Once, Maybe Twice Quotes

“I don’t know how to lose you, and I don’t know how to be with you,” Garrett finally said.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“I want you. I want you, and everything that comes with wanting you,” he said, with eyes unwavering on me.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Success doesn’t come easily for women who dare to be themselves. It’s a painful road, and Summer and I had already let down a few people along our chosen paths, and we’d let down more. But if we were lucky, at the end of our roads, we’d look back and smile, realizing that we’d made ourselves proud.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“You know the moment you realize the person across from you could be the person who fills the blanks inside your soul? I’d felt this once before—but at fourteen I didn’t understand how rare it was. For the first time in nearly a decade, I was drunk on the possibility of someone else. I”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“I had wandered the halls of my future with the false confidence of a mediocre white man, and I would pay for it like a woman.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Hope’s always the last friend to leave”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“What can I say? I’m an enigma.” I wasn’t. I was an open book begging to be read.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“After that night, I thought that for you, the idea of me was always going to be better than the real thing.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“I love you so fucking much,” I whispered, the truth of the statement splintering me in half. “You’ve—you’ve changed my life—not just once, but twice.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“We see divorce as a failure, but sometimes it’s not. Sometimes we have to wave a white flag in order to save ourselves, or be ourselves.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Maggie Vine, I could listen to you sing every day until I die,” he whispered, real low. Asher pressed his hand against the wall, pushing himself out of the elevator bank, with eyes that refused to leave mine as the doors shut between us. It took me five whole minutes to remember how to use my legs.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“To be honest, I started dating someone a handful of weeks ago, and I thought it wasn’t a good idea to fall in love with you. And when you sing, it’s hard to not fall in love with you. So, that’s why I didn’t come see you play.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“A childhood therapist once told my mom I was “filled with promise.” I had been promising for over three decades—like a drug that could work, but lacked federal funding.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“I want you. I want you, and everything that comes with wanting you,” he said, with eyes unwavering on me. I swallowed hard with my face in his hand, my heart already belonging to him.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“It’s not the heartbreak that defines who we are, it’s how we react to it. My father left scars on my mother’s heart, but my mother let the pain keep her from making new ones.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Hope’s reality had mostly let me down, but the sliver of possibilities pushed me through all the same.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Chinese takeout on the shag carpet as When Harry Met Sally played softly in the background.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Funny enough, I rarely suffered from imposter syndrome. When things went well, I knew I was exactly where I needed to be at the exact right time.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Artists do the opposite, every day. We tear down our own walls to dig into the center of our glittery souls and fashion something that’s uniquely ours—something that no one else can create. We present a slice of our humanity to the world, and nine times out of ten, the world tells us it isn’t for them.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Because I wasn’t on these steps sitting next to my soulmate. I was sitting next to The One That Got Away. And I had to let him go.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“He was the most sensitive human that I’d ever encountered, which was saying something, considering I overanalyzed every human interaction”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“It’s not the heartbreak that defines who we are, it’s how we react to it.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Progressive grandmas are national treasures, so I decided to protect her against my personal devastation at all costs.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“I finally understood how Blink-182 could speak to someone’s heart Well I guess this is growing up.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“No one tells women this when they get married in their twenties, you know? What we think we want at twenty-eight, it’s not always what we want at thirty-five. The things that make you feel safe and the things that set your heart on fire aren’t set in stone.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Women don’t have midlife crises, because we’ve spent our lives constantly in crisis.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“Maggie, he’s so in love with you that he can’t even meet your eyes because it hurts too much.” “I’m the type to look at something harder when it burns.” “He’s a man. Men look away. It’s how they go through life—compartmentalizing and putting what hurts them in boxes. You’re in a box right now.”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“The ashes of our maybes will keep me warm”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“would have found you, because the question mark was killing me,”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice

“I watch you throw hope to the wolves You shrug as they rip the dream of us apart Why should our finale have a heart Go ahead, burn me at the stake saying words better left unsaid Until the ashes of our maybes become my bed”
― Alison Rose Greenberg, Maybe Once, Maybe Twice