Despised Quote by Cate Marvin

“I’m what-iffing! I don’t what-if! What-iffing is for growups. They what-if themselves right into doing nothing, and die without ever living.”

— Karen Marie Moning

“Life is full of what ifs, don’t be the ‘I should have.’ Be the ‘I did.”

— Sandrine Gasq-Dion

“(Dad) could not abide us feeling sorry for ourselves. Life was far too good for us to whine about small things. It was selfish,…

— Jean Kennedy Smith

“There are so many times I think about a decision I’ve made and wonder, ‘What if I had done it differently? Who would I…

— Rebecca Donovan

When I grew up, people said, 'You'll never be the man your dad was.' And I said, 'Gee, I hope not.'

— Rip Torn

“You would hate people if you were like me… If you weren’t wanted.”

— Agatha Christie

“I'd love to know how Dad saw me when I was 6. I'd love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a…

— David Mitchell

“If I knew what I was thinking [...] I would never have become a writer.”

— Amélie Nothomb

“Would it help perhaps if I told you that, had your father returned to me alone, I would have sent him on his way…

— Robin McKinley

“There is an anxiety in being yourself, though. There is the haunting question of "What if?" always lingering. What if who I am will…

— Roxane Gay

“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of such colossal…

— A. H. Septimius

“I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.”

— Jim Butcher