More Than Maybe Quotes

“Lyrics do that sometimes. They find their home at just the right time. Like a secret message in a bottle, floating on a current for decades, only to wash up at someone's feet when the words are needed.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“Love is.... it's bringing an umbrella when rain is forecasted, but, like not for you. It's serenading someone off-key in the kitchen while they chop red peppers lenghtwise because they know you like them better that way. It's pulling the car in backward at night because your parner gets edgy when they have to back into morning traffic. It's buying moisturizer in bulk because one time they mentioned they liked the scent.
It's noticing things.Seeing parts of them even they might not know exist because you've been studying them since the moment you first laid eyes on them. It's memorizing their phone number even if you have it programmed because God forbid you ever lost your contacts. It's reading their mood by the song blaring through their headphones. It's experiencing something so extraordinary you can't tell if it was just that mind-blowing or if it's only because they were there with you that you were so affected by it.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“It sounds lonelier than it is. But I'd rather lose myself in a sea of strangers than find myself one-on-one with an acquaintance.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“Love is the lyrics to someone else's melody.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“There are two kinds of people in the world," Phil says, taking a pull from his tea. "The kind who listen to music and the kind who live inside it.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“I need music. Give me angsty lyrics, the heartfelt plucking of strings, passionate and world-weary pleas. Give me the banging of keys, the staccato of backbeats, the gift of swing and swoon. If I slice open my heart and put the rhythm to song, will she hear it?”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“I don't believe in fate. I believe in music.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“I don’t believe in fate. I believe in music. I’ve heard there is one person out there for everyone. One missing half to complete your whole. The fates will magnetically pull the two halves together through some orchestrated coincidence, and that’s it. You’re all set. Bollocks, that. I met my other half three years ago, and as far as I know … she has no idea. I don’t have time to wait on fate to make its move. For the fender bender, or the missed lift to the roof, or the swapped locker combination. It’s the end of senior year, and I can’t afford to leave things to a happy accident any longer. I need music. Give me angsty lyrics, the heartfelt plucking of strings, passionate and world-weary pleas. Give me the banging of keys, the staccato of backbeats, the gift of swing and swoon. If I slice open my heart and put the rhythm to song, will she hear it? The fates can get fucked. I’ve got to try.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“theres absolutly no coming back from this. science shows once you start noticeing consdtellations in freckles your fu****. i need to put a stop to this befor i do something mental like press a kiss to her bare shoulder or sprout the lyrics "anna begins”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“one day the word will come. hopefully, ill be ready for them.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“Back on the floor, I fill another cup with cherries and settle in to people watch. We have the modern equivalent to a jukebox in the corner that can be fed off debit cards, and someone’s clearly coming off a bad break because a second loop of Demi Lovato’s “Sorry Not Sorry” has started. I skim the club for the culprit. My money’s on the black-haired beauty with Cover Girl’s Matte #5 stained on her one, two, three straws. “Get it, girl,” I mumble under my breath. Demi is a perfectly respectable breakup diva. See also: Sam Smith and Ray LaMontagne.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe

“I can plan and fix and plot and schedule and dream all the fuck I want, and it will still come unraveled no matter what I do.”
― Erin Hahn, More Than Maybe