Quotes About Regret

You should be with someone who can make you happy, really happy, dancing on air happy. Someone who should have taken the chance to be with you years ago instead of getting scared and being too afraid to try.

earlier?" Gabe

But in reality the old man did not leave an empty life, because it was filled to the brim with the ghost of his past.

It is what he regrets, what beats him up inside that makes him relive it over and over a thousand times a day.

I'd been holding my breath all that time and as soon as she turned, I let it out. My heart twisted again and for a moment I panicked. I wanted to call her back, take it back. I wanted to go to Blake, take him back. Live the way we had always lived together. But then I remembered, habit.

Her heart was pounding, she was tired of thinking about it, tired of analyzing what on earth had happened, but she suddenly felt the need to repent, to apologize for everything she had ever done wrong just to feel worthy again.

So that makes time more precious, doesn't it? More precious than money, more precious than anything. You can never earn more time. Once an hour goes by, a week, a month, a year, you'll never get them back.

When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I forgot I'd forgotten until I remember them.

There were things I'd never do again, but then, they'd always seemed right.

It's always that simple. I fucked up. I'm sorry. That's all she wants to hear—that you're sorry for fucking up, and that you've learned something from it, and that because of whatever you learned you're not even capable of doing it again. Everyone makes mistakes. She just wants to know that you know it was a mistake. Unless you kill somebody, it's pretty rare that the mistake is bad enough to fuck something up forever.

Do you know what I don't understand about that ball game? I don't understand why I wanted to kill you.

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

Or maybe another baby might have helped us. Another try. Of course, that's the worst reason to have a child, anyone on the street can tell you that, because no one can handle being an attempt at something from the very start, (1998: 200)

And as terrified as she might have been as she lay in that room, perhaps regretting herself to the core, she had already resolved not to show any fear, no matter what was in store for her. So when

Should I just bite you, and end it all?, he whispered. I would never have to think about you again. Thinking about you is an annoying habit and one I want to be rid of.

A year ago,' I said, 'you wouldn't have asked this of me.' 'A year ago,' he answered, 'you wouldn't have hesitated to drink.' I crossed to the desk and tossed it down.

i hate not knowing what i did. _Eric

Sookie, what have we done? And to whom? I killed a chicken. And I cooked it. Sookie, Sookie. My bullshit meter is reading that as a false. -Eric Northman, Sookie Stackhouse

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Trees had died to make these forms, and that seemed a great pity to me.

Maybe I felt like I'd come so close to forever-death that I'd better step back and take a look at my life. Maybe I didn't like a lot of what I'd done with it so far.

I will never go anywhere with vampires again, I promised myself. I let the lure of the money and the excitement of the travel pull me in. But I won't do that again. As God is my witness . . . Then I had to laugh out loud. Scarlett O'Hara, I wasn't. "I'll never be hungry again

Suddenly, he had a mental image of Xylda so vivid that it almost brought tears to his eyes: this whole rush of past experiences, brought back by that one inhalation. He knew he said something to Creek before he turned to walk back to the car, but he couldn't recall what it was a minute later. He had to sit in the car for a while before he left to run his errands. He pulled out his list of errands from his pocket and pretended to be studying it until he was calm and composed

I had what amounted to an emotional hangover.