Quotes About Regret

There is a rustle of dead leaves. Dried sap, a branch crack, the whirring teeth of Mr. Omaru's saw. My father--my real father--is a limb that got axed off the family tree a long time ago now. My mother coughs and cleans phantom juices off her silver with a cloth doily. My sisters clench their knives.

I had to explain to him Mom's death, which was always hard to do. It felt like killing her again.

Una volta Beverly ha letto un articolo di una rivista scientifica sulla bioluminescenza, il bagliore naturale emesso da organismi come le lucciole e le meduse, ma sa che anche i morti emanano una strana luce, un fosforo che può danneggiare in modo permanente gli occhi dei vivi. Necroluminescenza – la luce degli scomparsi. Un pensiero retrospettivo prodotto dal corpo del defunto. I tuoi fallimenti retroilluminati dalla morte dei tuoi cari.

Don't look back, you asshole! he thought. Good advice, from Orpheus to Lot.

Her name in a stranger's mouth was a resurrection; however briefly, she was alive with him again again. Even that little shove could roll back the tomb.

She's dead. She's dead.

What a shame, I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

I just want to tell her that I'm sorry," Wallow says softly. He doesn't know that I'm awake. He's talking to himself, or maybe to the ocean. There's not a trace of fear in his voice. And it's clear then that Wallow is a better brother than I could ever hope to be.

Any place, then, can become a cemetery. All it takes is your body. It's not fair, I think, and I get this petulant wish for ugly flowers and mourners, my mother's old familiar grief. Somebody I love to tend my future grave. Probably this is the wrong thing to be wishing for.

Life is short. Be silly. Have fun. Love the people who treat you right, forget the ones who don't. Regret nothing. Believe everything happens for a purpose… and seek that purpose!

No amount of regret can change the past. No amount of anxiety can change the future.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

We all make choices, Miss Szarka. And if it doesn't work out the way we wanted it to, we can spend a lifetime blaming ourselves or blaming others. Either way, we've spent a lifetime blaming instead of a lifetime doing other things...I think the possibilities for second chances are everywhere if we just look hard enough." Eve

I've been the sheriff here for about five years now, and I'm surprised we haven't met." "She's been gone awhile--out to California," Trip explained. The Sheriff nodded, replacing his hat,"Sorry to hear that.

a thousand good intentions could never tip the scale over one unforgivable mistake.

I let my voice trail off, unable to explain that the biggest grudge I held was against my younger self, the girl I'd been trying to bury for almost a decade.

I never thought my actions would cause you to leave. I'm so sorry." I closed my eyes briefly. "It's not what made me leave, Daddy. But it's one of the things that made it easy to stay away.

Are you going to kiss me or not?" He released the jacket. "Not," he rasped. "Then I'll kiss you." Cupping his nape, she drew his head down, but Nate laid his fingertips over her mouth. "Some things you can't take back." Claire lifted his hand. "Some things you don't want to.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Carus, Carus, gib mir meine Millionen wieder!

One day beside some flowers near his noseHe will be thinking, When will I look at it?And pain, still in the middle distance, will replyAt what? and he will know it's gone,O where! and begin to tremble and cry.He will begin to cry as a child criesWhose puppy is mangled under a screaming wheel.

At no point in his cramming for his upcoming confrontation with Gemma did the words "I'm sorry" cross his mind.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

oops!…i did it again saturday, april 2