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Kaui Hart Hemmings

I’m sorry, I say. I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

I’m sorry,” I say. “I didn’t give you everything you wanted. I wasn’t everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

Gabrielle Zevin

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

Charlaine Harris

The problem with living without the person you can’t live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

I never want to regret the kisses I missed.

She had been wrong to think it wouldn’t matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted – not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she’d put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can’t appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I’d be there with you now instead of here. Maybe… if I’d said, ‘I’m so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,’ maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn’t do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.