You've turned out good. You've made me proud, Markos.I am fifty-five years old. I have waited all my life to hear those words. Is it too late now for this? For us? Have we squandered too much for too long? Part of me thinks it is better to go on as we have, to act as though we don't know how ill suited we have been for each other. Less painful that way. Perhaps better than this belated offering. This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable. Khaled Hosseini
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.
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Steve Toltz
It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.
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Jonathan Franzen
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
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Charles Frazier
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
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W. Somerset Maugham
There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.
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Nina Lacour
More Quotes By Khaled Hosseini
I will follow you to the ends of the world.
The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.
And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. She uprooted them and ditched them...
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime...
