Regret Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“She had everything she wanted, but she still felt, at times, that there were other things she might want if she knew about them.”

— Edith Wharton

“As with every other time, she wished they could go back and undo the things they’d said years earlier; try and do things differently,…

— Victoria Jenkins

“It wasn’t as if she’d thought it through or anything, how what a person wanted wasn’t always what they needed, and what a person…

— Shannon Celebi

“she had made her choices in life, and her choices had made her in return.”

— Dexter Palmer

“When she returned, she was full of life, impassioned. She seemed to want change, within herself, between them, and she believed all things were…

— Madeleine Thien

“She is all that I want but everything I shouldn't have.”

— K.L. Jessop

“Laura wanted all of it back, every moment, so that she could live it all over again.”

— Emma Straub

“No matter what she'd done in our past, I would always want her. I could turn away and show restraint a thousand times, and…

— J.L. Berg

“Yeah, there were regrets - but mostly there was an understanding - it had all brought her to here. To now. To who she…

— Anonymous

“There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. One moment. Then another.…

— Sarah Ockler

“Never mind that it was not what she wanted. Never mind that there was so much left to see and learn and do. She’d…

— Renee Ahdieh

“But I didn't think I'd ever wanted her more than in that moment when I was witnessing her put herself back together.”

— Christina Lauren