“We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours forever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. All this happened so long ago. And I never returned, never wrote, never met anyone who might have given me news of Oxgody. So, in memory, it stays as I left it, a sealed room furnished by the past, airless, still, ink long dry on a put-down pen. But this was something I knew nothing of as I closed the gate and set off across the meadow.” GoneRegretSadMetaphorThe PastEndingLast LinesA Month In The CountryJ L CarrUnrecoverable Book:A Month in the Country Source: A Month in the Country
“Summertime! And summertime in my early twenties! And in love! No, better than that - secretly in love, coddling it up in myself. It's an odd feeling, coming rarely more than once in most of our lifetimes. In books, as often as not, they represent it as a sort of anguish but it wasn't so for me. Later perhaps, but not then.” LovePastRomanceMemoriesRegretSummerNostalgiaUnrequited LoveYoung LoveReminiscing Book:A Month in the Country Source: A Month in the Country
“That was the missed moment. I should have put out a hand and taken her arm and said, "Here I am. Ask me. Now. The real question! Tell me. While I'm here. Ask me before it's too late.” RegretWhat IfShould Have BeenMissed OpportunitiesMissed ChancesA Month In The CountryJ L Carr Book:A Month in the Country Source: A Month in the Country