Quotes About Regret

El pasado siempre volvía, vivía en los recuerdos, en las pasiones mal tapadas por capas y capas de olvido.

Is that what you think this is about? Your letting me die? I don't know what clouds your judgement worse. Your guilt or your antiquated sense of morality. Bruce, I forgive you for not saving me. But why... Why on God's earth--??! Is he still alive!!??

I was a fool to get involved with you in the first place. And you were a bigger fool for coming after me.

Someday every second you have spent hating will show on your face.

So you're saying that you wouldn't have

Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

I do not know where my life has gone.

But it only passes through her mind, and then, like a dusty book consigned to a shelf, it joins the vast sad library of things left unsaid.

life isn't like a book, you know: you can never turn back to a page

Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.

Oh, I'm terribly sorry, but I can't." "I'd love to, but I'm afraid it's impossible." "Unfortunately, I can't, but I hope you can find someone." It

In the future, I hope you'll remember to think before you speak. You can't take back hurtful words after they've been spoken. Painful words can remain etched on a heart forever. They can do irreparable harm.

Tell me," he said, smiling, "Would you really have danced with the duke?" She relaxed, the danger past. "Yes. But he was my second choice. You, sir, didn't seem to have much interest in me." "Ah. There you are very wrong." His smile faltered, and then he began to lean forward, as if he would kiss her again. But the door opened, and a loud group of young men pushed into the courtyard, filling the garden with glimmering light and sound as they laughed amongst themselves.

Florence Dodson was murdered the same night that Claire Guthrie shot her husband. For me, the story began with Claire, and I put Mrs. Dodson on the back burner in my mind. That turned out to be a mistake.

I thought about all the dumb things I'd done since I got to camp. Telling everyone that Eric Richards was my cousin was dumb, but following Denni was even dumber.

Just one dance. Just one. That's all I wanted. I know now how you can take one step and you can't stop yourself from taking another. I know now what it means to want. I know it can get you to a place where there's no way out. I know now that there's no such thing as just one. But I didn't know it then.

Love is an ugly, terrible business practiced by fools. It'll trample your heart and leave you bleeding on the floor. And what does it really get you in the end? Nothing but a few incredible memories that you can't ever shake.

It is a pity that those whose good graces we long for are always dead.

I think it better for me to do A than B, but am led by anger, or some other emotion, to do B instead.

So sorry. Sit down in the seat of shame between your parents. Hee.

As I ached for this lost part of myself, my missing finger became a synecdoche for all lost things in my life—women and mothers, youth and full-scalp coverage, soberness, and the bliss of solid sleep. Most of all, I ached for the future as a shimmering, distant thing.

What is the biggest tragedy you wouldn't be conscious of? Letting life pass you by. Living like a starfish, clinging to your one unchanging colorless rock.

Tashi, you know I love you, don't you?" he said sofly in her ear. She smiled: trust the son of a Horse Follower to woo in the saddle. "I thought we were already betrothed." "You broke it off, remember." He kissed the top of her head. "Oh yes, I suppose I did. I'm sorry about that." "I didn't deserve you. I don't deserve you now." "Well, as long as you know that." She turned and gave him a mischievous smile.