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 Colson Whitehead
See chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children.
We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.
The word we. We are not one people but many different people. How can one person speak for this great, beautiful race--which is not one race but many, with a million desires and hopes and wished for ourselves and our children?
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in...
