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  1. Ned Vizzini _ It's Kind of a Funny Story

    --but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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  2. Ned Vizzini _ It's Kind of a Funny Story

    I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
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  3. Julia Quinn _ The Viscount Who Loved Me

    You have to live each hour as if it's your last," she said, "and each day as if you were immortal. When my father grew ill, he had so many regrets. There were so many things he wished he'd done, he told me. He'd always assumed he had more time. That's something I've always carried with me. Why on earth do you think I decided to attempt the flute at such an advanced age? Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that's not the point, really. I don't need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried.
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  4. David Baldacci _ Memory Man

    Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.
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  5. Juliet Marillier _ Raven Flight

    Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn.
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  6. Paulo Coelho _ Warrior of the Light

    If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom.But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end."
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  7. Nicholas Sparks _ The Best of Me

    Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
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  8. Lisa See _ Peony in Love

    In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.
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  9. Salman Rushdie _ The Satanic Verses

    Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.
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  10. John Steinbeck _ Travels with Charley: In

    What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.
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  11. Richard Russo _ Nobody's Fool

    No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....
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  12. Joseph Conrad _ Lord Jim

    There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.
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