Quotes About Regret

If you leave, we lose and our pasts win.

Qué haría yo sin ti? —Eso nunca lo sabrás.

Cary Taylor. Loving you isn't a character defect." "Well, it's not very smart. I was such an asshole to him," he muttered, looking disgruntled. "He could do so much better." "That isn't your decision to make for him." "Someone needs to make it." "And you're volunteering because you love him, too." My mouth curved. "Don't you think that sounds ass-backwards?

She can't change the past." "It's not the past she's thinking of." He set his hand briefly on my shoulder. "It's the future.

But I want you to know that even though the way you've handled this is fucking wrong and you've broken my heart into millions of tiny pieces and I've lost all respect for you, I don't blame you for how you feel after seeing those pictures of me. I get it.

You're toying with one of my people," she said coldly, watching impassively as he lifted her hand to his mouth. "You never used to be cruel" "I used to have a heart, he drawled and then someone broke it.

He sighed. She was a mistake in every sense. She made herself available once, and I make it a rule to avoid overly eager women a second time. And that doesn't make you sound like an asshole at all.

I supposed, perhaps, you miss the promise of what could have been, while at the same time you are grateful that what it was instead is over.

Must've been some lay for her to be so bent out of shape over it. I couldn't say, he muttered. I don't remember. Were you drunk? No. Jesus. He scrubbed at his face. What the hell did she tell you?

Qué otra cosa podía hacer, Eva? Ni siquiera sabía de tu existencia. —La voz de Gideon se hizo más grave y áspera—. Si hubiera sabido que andabas por ahí, te habría buscado. No habría perdido ni un segundo. Pero no lo sabía, y me conformé con menos. Igual que tú. Los dos perdimos el tiempo con personas que no eran adecuadas.

What the hell was I supposed to do, Eva? I didn't know you existed." Gideon's voice deepened, roughened. "If I'd known you were out there, I would've hunted you down. I wouldn't have waited a second to find you. But I didn't know, and I settled for less. So did you. We both wasted ourselves on the wrong people

Do not wait until life meets some inner criteria to seize the day, she whispered. I have learned that sometimes tomorrow never comes.

If I'd known you were out there, I would've hunted you down. I wouldn't have waited a second to find you. But I didn't know, and I settled for less. So did you. We both wasted ourselves on the wrong people.

Es mejor haber amado y perdido después que no haber amado nunca.

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. --from Daddy, written 12 October 1962

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. Save them for my funeral, I'd said.

I used to pray to recover you. --from Daddy, written 12 October 1962

I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me.

The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem Mad Girl's Love Song

I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)