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  1. Irvine Welsh _ Filth

    There's no fear or regret but no elation or sense of triumph either. It's just a job that had to be done.
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  2. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.
    book-quotelovelifedeath

  3. James S.A. Corey _ Cibola Burn

    His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.
    book-quotewarspaceregret

  4. Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia

    He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn't even started to be grown-ups together. There was this piece of heaven, this little girl he'd carried around the shop on his shoulders; and then one day she was gone, replaced by a foreigner, an uncooperative woman he didn't know how to speak to. Being so confused, so weak, so in love, he chose strength and drove her away from himself. The last years he spent wondering where she'd gone, and slowly came to realise that she would never return, and that the husband he'd chosen for her was an idiot.
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  5. Jess Walter _ The Financial Lives of the

    But it's not easy, realising how we fucked it all up. And that turns out to be the hardest thing to live with, not the regret or the fear, but the realisation that the edge is so close to where we live."
    book-quotefearregretfucking-up

  6. Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island

    Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those sometimes - okay? - and get your fucking head right."Those were the last words his wife heard from him. He'd closed the door and walked down the stairs, paused on the last step. He thought of going back. He thought of going back up the stairs and into the apartment and somehow making it right. Or, if not right, at least softer.Softer. That would have been nice.
    book-quoteregretshutter-island

  7. Dennis Lehane _ Shutter Island

    She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic."
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  8. Jude Watson _ Beyond the Grave

    Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that."
    book-quoteregretcahillian

  9. Neil Gaiman _ Smoke and Mirrors: Short

    Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.
    book-quoteregret

  10. John le Carré _ Our Game

    A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.
    book-quoteregretenemy

  11. Ta-Nehisi Coates _ We Were Eight Years in Power:

    I remembered that once, as a child, I was filled with wonder, that I had marveled at tri-folded science projects, encyclopedias, and road atlases. I left much of that wonder somewhere back in Baltimore. Now I had the privilege of welcoming it back like a long-lost friend, though our reunion was laced with grief; I mourned over all the years that were lost. The mourning continues. Even today, from time to time, I find myself on beaches watching six-year-olds learn to surf, or at colleges listening to sophomores slip from English to Italian, or at cafés seeing young poets flip though "The Waste Land," or listening to the radio where economists explain economic things that I could've explored in my lost years, mourning, hoping that I and all my wonder, my long-lost friend, have not yet run out of time, though I know that we all run out of time, and some of us run out of it faster.
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  12. Marion Zimmer Bradley _ The Mists of Avalon

    She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.
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