Middle Quotes

“I couldn't look at her. I'd been jealous and hurt, and I had dragged Liv into the middle of my own broken mess of a life. All because I thought Lena didn't love me anymore. But I was stupid, and I was wrong. Lena loved me so much, she was willing to risk everything to save me.
I had given up on Lena, after she had refused to give up on me. I owed her my life. It was as simple as that.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

“...I don't understand this gap you see between us, but can't you meet me somewhere in the middle?"

"The middle of what?"

"I don't know, the middle of tomorrow and forever, the middle of life and death, the middle of normal and paranormal. Where we've always been."

I bit my lip, nodding against his forehead. "There's a place for us there, right?"

"Always." He put his lips to mine, sealing our own little spot in the world. Together.”
― Kiersten White, Supernaturally

“Some people are just sad when there aren't talking squirrels.” —Lily Winter”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be found, that the middle path is the path of movement. . . . In the right and left worlds, the stories are largely set. . . . We become missionaries for a position . . . practitioners of the missionary position. Variety is lost. Diversity is lost. Creativity is lost in our inability to make love with the world.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Leap

“I was just stock in the middle, vague and undefined.”
― Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key

“Catherine Land liked the beginnings of things. The pure white possibility of the empty room, the first kiss, the first swipe at larceny. And endings, she liked endings, too. The drama of the smashing glass, the dead bird, the tearful goodbye, the last awful word which could never be unsaid or unremembered.
It was the middles that gave her pause. This, for all its forward momentum, this was a middle. The beginnings were sweet, the endings usually bitter, but the middles were only the tightrope you walked between the one and the other. No more than that.”
― Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife

“Tavin cupped his hands to his mouth. “Here, dragon-dragon-dragon!” he yelled.
Lily stared in amazement. Well, that was bold, she thought, and stupid.”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“It turns out that indecision is a path itself; but figuratively, a vertical path - up or down - meaning it isn't always a fruitless path. One is forgotten, but the other is glorified. To be what they call 'middle-of-the-road' in most cases just means you have a hard time figuring out who between options is dumber. So quite often those who refused to decide were, after all, the bold individuals, the influential ones, the creative ones, those who snatched their own authority.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Odd names: Winter, Autumn—they almost sound as if someone just made them up.” —Dubb”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tempering the climate and the temperaments of the Scots, as the driest land became moist and the wettest land became dry, seedlings finding a mean between extremes, and the trees constructing a moderate zone for themselves even into what I would have called tundra, until I understood the fact that Aristotle taught, while walking in a botanic garden, that the middle is fittest to discern the extremes. ("Interim")”
― William S. Wilson, Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka

“But—" yelped Twizbang, “Greydor will eat us!”
― Richard Due, The Moon Coin

“Even a pebble cast in the middle of a lake creates ripples that eventually reaches the shore.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“Every perfume is made of top, middle, and base notes. Top notes are light, middle notes last longer, base notes last longest. A good perfume has all three, but they have to be in the proper proportions."
The sentences washed over me in a wave of technicalities, but I could feel what she was talking about. It had happened with every scent-paper I'd smelled, the fragrance shifting, telling a story that deepened even as it disappeared. Even nature was that way, if you thought about it- the bright green of the trees giving way to the dark and complicated dirt beneath, the ocean holding the scent of death under all that life.”
― Erica Bauermeister, The Scent Keeper

“Your enemy is not in the Middle East or Asia, it is your own government.”
― Steven Magee

“Being in the middle of the ocean slows things down.”
― Steven Magee

“The truth is somewhere in the middle of each thing which you read... in it's in the middle... to find it... you need time... but time in it's the essence, right now!”
― Deyth Banger

“My middle name should have been ‘Insane’.”
― Steven Magee

“Hello MERS, goodbye world.”
― Steven Magee

“Middle aged people are the bulk of what hospital emergency departments are seeing for COVID-19 in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“In a time of crisis, the last thing that anyone needs is a centrist position ... a position of uncertainty, doubt, compromise, no clear direction, no conviction, no purpose. We are entering a revolutionary stage that requires a revolutionary response. Revolutions always come from the left or right, and never from the centre, which is the position of stasis, the status quo, business as usual. It’s the position for the fearful.”
― Mark Romel, Theresa May: The Bankruptcy of British Politics

“Most people are sickly by their forties. They say only 5% of them are actually healthy!”
― Steven Magee

“Working in customer service was being piggy in the middle between the company that sucks and the customer that knows they are being mistreated!”
― Steven Magee

“Many people evacuated from Tampa to avoid hurricane Ian, only to find themselves in the middle of one of the most historic storms the USA has ever seen!”
― Steven Magee

“When President Obama showed up to launch the Desoto Solar Farm, we were in the middle of dealing with the engineering disaster it really was!”
― Steven Magee

“I knew something was seriously wrong with the Desoto Solar Farm when I was watching the power increasing as it was approaching noon, and then it suddenly started losing megawatts of energy in the middle of a sunny day!”
― Steven Magee

“There really needs to be a public inquiry as to how the President of the USA ended up in the middle of a field of known dangerous solar power equipment, telling the world’s media how wonderful it was!”
― Steven Magee

“The 2022 Mauna Loa eruption started in the middle of the night.”
― Steven Magee

“The summit of the Mauna Loa volcano silently erupted in the middle of the night in 2022.”
― Steven Magee

“My time as a middle manager was a decade spent in high altitude professional astronomy. I found myself in a ‘Piggy In The Middle’ situation. The management team wanted a well performing telescope that was free of issues and the people I was managing appeared lethargic! I later discovered through research that the high altitude exposures drain them of energy. The high altitude workers end up in a state of mal-acclimatization, where they are never acclimatized to the mountain and they are never acclimatized to sea level. After a decade working at high altitude, I was also lethargic! It was a relief to leave the field of professional astronomy. I spent the following decades characterizing the toxicity of professional astronomy and I discovered a new sickness called ‘Altitude Hypersensitivity’.”
― Steven Magee