The Theory of Opposites Quotes

“But what’s regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it’s a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn’t know better when the answers were so obvious all along.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it’s meant to.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“regret is just misplaced nostalgia. That you can look back fondly or even wistfully on pieces of your life and hound yourself with endless what-ifs, but nothing will change. The present will still be the present. The future will still unfold as it’s meant to.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“But I suppose our childhoods are seeds inside of us that plant roots forever, even when we’re certain their life cycles have long since been extinguished. How long will it take for my own roots to loosen their grip?”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“I'm better at life with you in it.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“There’s always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“No one really can have any idea if it’s luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

“motherhood is like this: a series of tiny moments that add up to an enormous love, with lots of other moments of frustration and misunderstanding and complexity woven in between.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites

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― Allison Winn Scotch, The Theory of Opposites