My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Jodi Picoult
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  1. Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed. - Steve Toltz

  2. It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds. - Jonathan Franzen

  3. He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret. - Charles Frazier

  4. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing. - W. Somerset Maugham

  5. There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't. - Nina Lacour

More Quotes By Jodi Picoult
  1. You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.

  2. If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?

  3. You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone falls in love first. Someone puts someone else up on a pedestal. Someone works very hard to keep things rolling smoothly; someone else sails along for the ride.

  4. I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.

  5. And he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not immediately, maybe not with the same blinding rush of pain, but it would happen. You couldn't live for very long without a heart.

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