"I was crying because I had broken my best friend's heart."

Regret, Love, Hurt, Responsibility

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"You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Regret, Past, Desire, Change

"But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

Regret, Motherhood, Choice, Emotion

"I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Regret, Shame, Error, Justice, War

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Regret, Relationship, Pain, Self

"We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Regret, Love, Memory, Truth

"I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Regret, Addiction, Escape, Memory

"It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Regret, Time, Fear, Future

"Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"We want a fresh start only because we didn't sufficiently care for the last fresh start."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Regret, Truth, Future, Wisdom

"What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don't believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Regret, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

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"That's how I do this life sometimes by making the ordinary just like magic and just like a card trick and just like a mirror and just like the disappearing. Every Indian learns how to be a magician and learns how to misdirect attention and the dark hand is always quicker than the white eye and no matter how close you get to my heart you will never find out my secrets and I'll never tell you and I'll never show you the same trick twice. I'm traveling heavy with illusions."

Identity

"Because I want to be remembered."

Legacy

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

Grief

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

Pain

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

Family

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

Belief

"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."

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"You can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really wanted to do."

"But it seems she'd wanted children after all, because when she was told she'd been accidentally sterilized she could feel all the light leaking out of her."

"I will lament your departure. I will hide my shame for having erred on some obscure point, for thinking that the justice of war is the same of peacetime."

"I wasn't able to be that person for you, and I did a terrible thing. I feel awful about it. But there was something wrong between us from the start, as if we'd done the buttons up wrong."

"I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself."

"It is foolishness to want what never was or will never will be, lament the passage of time, and live in fearfulness of an uncertain future. The moods generated by regret including depression and self-loathing congeal in our sentient consciousness creating the painful landscape of the self."

"Don't live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past."

"We want a fresh start only because we didn't sufficiently care for the last fresh start."

"What in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don't believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place."

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"My only purpose is to teach children to rebel against authority figures."

"The dream he needed most was the dream that frightened him more."

"He was my best friend and I needed him."

"Because I want to be remembered."

"Everyone I have lost in the closing of a doorthe click of the lockis not forgotten, theydo not die but remainwithin the soft edgesof the earth, the ashof house fires and cancerin sin and forgivenesshuddled under old blanketsdreaming their way intomy hands, my heartclosing tight like fists."

"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

"My sister is running away to get lost, but I am running away because I want to find something. And my parents love me so much that they want to help me. Yeah, Dad is a drunk and Mom is an ex-drunk, but they don't want their kids to be drunks."

"Everybody prayed, everybody lied about it. Even atheists prayed on airplanes and bingo nights."

"And then I realized that my sister was trying to LIVE a romance novel. Man, that takes courage and imagination. Well, it also took some degree of mental illness, too, but I was suddenly happy for her. And a little scared. Well, a lot scared."