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“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close ...”
“And it was pointless...to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the l...”
“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The wor...”
“Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?”
“Weirdly—but as Danny and Amos had suspected—the further the winning number was from the number on a person's lottery ticket, the less regret they felt. "In defiance of logic, there is a definite se...”
“I want a chance to do it all again. To do it… right.”
“The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.”
“Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday’s trash.”
“But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You’ll carry for it for ev...”
“I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.”
“Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.”
“My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret”
“Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I watched him disappear, lights fading in the distance like waking up from a dream.”
“There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.”
“It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and that that part of her soul would quickly be smothered in the life she was leading.”
“I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.”
“Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.”
“Things always happen for a reason, that’s what everybody says.”“But often, not for the reasons we wanted.”“Yeah, it’s like a rule of life, or something.” Dia menghela napas. “But I think believing ...”
“Ah, you dumb sonovabitch, why’d you let your warrior go?”
