Quotes About Regret

He leaned back, the misery in his eyes cutting through me. "But they're only wishes Lia, because you've made promises and so have I. Tomorrow will come, and tomorrow will matter, to your kingdom and to mine. So please, don't ask me again if I wish for something, because I don't want to be reminded that every day I wish for something I cannot have.

My mother's abscence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.

Words, Kaden. Only lost unsaid words that added up to good-bye.

But I would always see her. Until I drew my last breath, it would always be her face I saw when I closed my eyes at night, and her face again when I woke each morning. I would force myself to forget the last words I heard from her lips. I would remember others. I love you, Jafir de Aldrid. Words that, now, I was sure I had never deserved. I

Some last words should never be said.

Because I knew the guilt would destroy her, and I couldn't bear for her to suffer any more than she already had. Orrin

Seeing Malich dead was suddenly a very small victory. The satisfaction trickled away, like his blood across the floor. His death only gave me an ending-it didn´t give back what had been taken.

How did you do it, Mother?" I asked, still staring at the passing carriages below. "How did you travel all the way from Gastineux to marry a toad you didn't love?" "Your father is not a toad," my mother said sternly. I whirled to face her. "A king maybe, but a toad nonetheless. Do you mean to tell me that when you married a stranger twice your age, you didn't think him a toad?

sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.

We can never know the exact moment when someone will leave our lives forever. How many times had I bargained with the gods for one more day, one hour, just one minute. Was that too much to ask? One minute to say the unsaid things that were still trapped inside me. Or maybe I only wanted one more minute to say a real good-bye.

I gave you a chance. I gave you every chance.

Loss flooded my throat. It had gripped me today with a fresh, cruel hand, reaching into my heart, tugging, reminding me of what I had lost... My mother's absence hit me in a new, bitter way, because sometimes you can't begin to know everything you've lost until someone shows you what you might have had.

Write it down, before you forget. And each day we do. But we can only write about Now. Before is already gone, except for the nightmares.

She would never believe another word I said. Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

As he sat in the deep embrasure of a mullioned window, talking to my lady, his mind wandered away to shady Figtree Court, and he thought of poor George Talboys smoking his solitary cigar in the room with the birds and canaries.

Birds cough out their lungs, fly with regret to places where their feet no longer freeze in ice. Birds start falling. Bees lie dying.

Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

We weep for what we may never lose

I never imagined I would lose him, she thought. Never.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

If I had known, do you think I should have let her get away with this mad plan? That I should have let her rob me of my child? No, I should have taken you myself and hidden with you in some far-off land and never seen her again rather than agree to such an unnatural scheme

De duchessa is dood. - Silvia

I wish I had an extra day with my mom sometimes. Or another hour in the day with my family, husband and children.

Hoarding and wasting kept them out of Heaven And brought them to this barroom brawl; I won't try to prettify it with words.