“Maybe my mother's right. Maybe there is more to Bryce Loski than I know.Maybe it's time to meet him in the proper light.”

“Maybe it’s time to meet him in the proper light.”

“I had Flipped.-Bryce Loski”

“So there I was, with the two hottest girls on campus, having lunch. I was "the man", the envy of every other guy in our school.Buddy, I was miserable."-Bryce Loski”

“The truth is that I’ve spent all my life with my binoculars trained on the Maybe Islands, a pristine place of fantasy that is really no better than the razor-rocks of misery. Maybe if I had stayed on the farm… maybe if I hadn’t gone with Spike… maybe if I could have lived more peaceably… maybe if I’d met the right person years ago, maybe if I hadn’t done this, or that or, its cousin, the other. Maybe, baby, the promised land was there and I missed it. Look at it glittering in the light. But the truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done. The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.”

“As I examine my life through this book, I can't help but wonder if my mother was right. Maybe I really was what I ate. And maybe if she'd let me eat a little more sugar, I'd have come out sweeter.”