Quotes About Regret

Mahad had done wrong, but I had been unforgivably trusting, which meant I was fatally dense. I had failed to be suspicious. I deserved my grandma's scorn. I was not allowed to talk back to Grandma, and Ma said nothing to defend me. I could only sob, and seethe.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

By the time her husband eventually went to the front and was killed, Kadiza rued her decision to travel to Syria. The caliphate was not a land of honor and justice where Muslims could hold their heads high, where the call to prayer filled the air and the pavement was littered with roses. Instead it was a vortex of violence and corruption where men hoarded cars and women settled scores against neighbors and foes, as though it were one long mafia war.

The beaten time can't back but try to make it more valuable than money

Getting over her had been impossible. A day hadn't gone by that he hadn't thought of her, yearned for her. Sometimes he felt as if he couldn't breathe if he didn't see her again. He'd had to come back to make things right no matter how it ended.

I'm not going to apologize for kissing you. I've wanted to since the first time I laid eyes on you. Only back then, I was just a boy.

She was a woman who'd foolishly married a handsome, smooth-talking man. Now she was living a bad country song.

You've made a terrible mistake.

Here she was on her wedding night and nothing about it was as she'd once dreamed. Dierdre "Drey" Hunter Baxter. Married to the wrong man.

Stupid girl. Now she was going to have to die.

I want to die." May shook her head. "Let me get a knife." "I've made a horrible mess of things." "Haven't we all? If you don't want your supper burned, die quietly while I get back to the kitchen.

This wasn't the Lillie he'd left that night nine years ago. His Lillie was all fire and shooting rockets. His Lillie wasn't like any woman he'd ever known. His Lillie… wasn't his anymore.

A half mile down the hillside, he could see Warren's pickup stop in a cloud of dust. Hud watched Dana get out. She was still beautiful. Still prickly as a porcupine. Still strong and determined. Still wishing him dead.

She promised herself she wouldn't do it even as she reached out, her fingers trembling, and adjusted the side mirror to look back.

Hud? Back here? Oh, man, what a birthday present," Hilde said, giving her another hug. "I'm so sorry, sweetie. I can imagine what seeing him again did to you." "I still want to kill him," Dana whispered. "Not on your birthday." Hilde frowned.

Brody McTavish. Harper grimaced in embarrassment. She'd been half in love with him as far back as she could remember. Not that he had looked twice at her. He'd been the handsome rowdy teen she used to spy on from a distance.

He'd never been able to say no to her – even when he should have known that a girl like her wanted something better than a cowboy like him.

She was a joke, and the only man she'd ever loved now knew it.

I'm sorry about a lot of things. Being with you isn't one of them.

If he'd forgotten that shy twelve-year-old whose heart he'd broken, well, she'd be happy to remind him.

What about your Your 10,000 promises? That you gave to me (to me, babe) Your 10,000 promises That you promised me You say I'll take you back But I close the door 'Cause I don't want 10,000 more

The errors of young men, are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men, amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.

Rarely do I attach guilt to something pleasant. Life's too short.