Quotes About Regret

Fine, than I will not have to blame you for killing my friends with your stupidity. -Haymitch

He said, See that little girl? I wanted to marry her mother, but she ran off with a coal miner." -Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games

I told you we should have rescued the boy first.

I want to interrupt the taping and beg Finnick's forgiveness for every false thought I've ever had about him.

And I know I'm not alone. As badly as I have hurt him,

Amazingly similar in the execution. A bow pulled, an arrow shot. Entirely different in the aftermath. I killed a boy whose name I don't even know. Somewhere his family is weeping for him. His friends call for my blood. Maybe he had a girlfriend who really believed he would come back....

Do I really want him dead? What I want . . . what I want is to have him back. But I'll never get him back now. Even

It didn't seem like much of a priority, jogging around a field with a gun with so many other things going on. And now I'm paying for my negligence.

No, Darius shouldn't be glad he knew me. If I had

And like a fool, I bought into it.

You shoot me and go home and live with it!" And as I say it, I know death right here, right now would be the easier of the two.

What I want . . . what I want is to have him back.

he was killed during interrogation. Brilliant, enigmatic, lovely Cinna is dead because of me.

I should have never let them separate us!" Peeta bursts out. "That's when I lost her.

That I shouldn't have trusted him," says Peeta.

Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd be feeling less conflicted now. I thought about it a couple of times, but the opportunity never seemed to present itself. And now it never will. Because we're going to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death. Exactly how am I supposed to work in a thank-you in there? Somehow it just won't seem sincere if I'm trying to slit his throat.

i killed you, i think as I pass a pile. and you. and you

No, it happened. And right when your song ended, I knew — just like your mother — I was a goner,

That's what my daddy thought, too. And he ended up with more bullet holes than I could count on my fingers,

A good clean shot to end it all. Only there's no arrow, no bullet. Is it possible he can't see me? No. Above us, on the giant screens placed around the City Circle, everyone can watch the whole thing being played out. He sees, he knows, but he doesn't follow through. Just as I didn't when he was captured. Sorry excuses for hunters and friends. Both of us. I'm on my own.

I begin to regret those last dozen oysters.

I travel back in time, falling back into what I know for certain, the historical data I cling to in order to not go mad, not assume I made a suicidal and well-informed error in marrying this man.

I should have known then it wasn´t nothing , as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant. No sense closing the barn door now, or so I thought. I swallowed the nothing , straightaway after the usual tears and denial.

My mind floats like ash. I blame myself most cruelly.