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“This was the worst story yet. The phantom life that might have been.”

Book:A Great Reckoning

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A Great Reckoning

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Louise Penny

Louise Penny is a Canadian author renowned for her mystery novel series, set in the backdrop of Quebec, Canada. Her works are known for their intricate plotlines and nuanced psychological portrayals. more

“You know the good years when you're in them? Or do you just wait for them until you get ass cancer and realize that the good years came and went? Because there's a feeling that -- you might notice it sometime -- that this feeling that life has slipped through your fingers. Like the future is behind you. Like it's always been behind you.”

Past Regret True Detective

Author:Martin Hart

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.”

Death Grief Mourning

Author:Joan Didion

“الناس يحرصون على الزواج السريع ، ليندموا بعد ذلك على مهل”

Marriage Regret

Book:عاشوا في حياتي

Source: عاشوا في حياتي

“If you erased your past mistakes, you could purge your regrets with them, but you’d also wipe any lessons learned and any subsequent maturity gained. Don’t regret the minefields you stepped into, just try and learn not to step into the same one twice.”

Regret Maturity Maturity Quotes Regrets Of The Past Regrets In Life Mistakes Learn Life Minefield

Author:Stewart Stafford

“Learning was so dangerous: for how could one tell in advance, while still ignorant, whether a thing could ever be unlearned or forgotten, or if, once known and named, it would invalidate by its significance the whole of one's former life, all of those years wiped out, convicted at one blow, retrospectively darkened by one sudden light?”

Growth Knowledge Regret

Book:The Waterfall

Source: The Waterfall

“All his life he'd dealt in honour and service, the way a furrier deals in furs or a vintner in wine. On his lips the terms had had specialised political meanings, and he'd long since stopped thinking about what the words stood for in the world at large. Now, unfortunately a little bit too late, he'd been granted a little gleam of insight; service is what makes you stand in the line when nobody would try and stop you if you ran away, and honour is what's left when every other conceivable reason for staying there has long since evaporated.”

Regret Honor Service

Book:Colours in the Steel

Source: Colours in the Steel

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