I Regret Everything Quotes

“Our lives are lived with the illusion of control and then there are moments rare as wisdom when we abandon the pretense that we are masters of our fate.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“I vowed to be more generous in our relationship, to consider my mother as more than the sum of her bad decisions.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“We think words bring us close to people when they’re gone but they’re a comfort, not a substitute. Words can summon a memory but absence has no cure.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“There were people you cared about. Maybe not many, but there were a few and when you cared about them enough it hurt.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“I don’t want to struggle to describe things anymore. I want to let experience happen without the filter of intellect.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“Qualunque cosa sia non puo essere cosi male. L’amore è difficile.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“I couldn’t allow myself to have what I desperately wanted which was not a partnership but for Spaulding Simonson to accompany me. I missed being with her, the sense of adventure she brought, that feeling I had of being stupidly alive when we were together. Why did I need to deprive myself?”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“That was horrifying. Fear had blinded me to this but the situation had changed. What if I were found out? Exposed. Prosecuted. Disbarred. My life would crumble. I would have no job, my prospects would be dismal, and it was impossible to know how Spaulding would react. And the only person whose opinion mattered, the only one, was Spaulding.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“Regret expands. It matures. It accrues strength and mass. It is a living organism.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story

“I had the urge to caress the small of her back with my fingertips. That thought was immediately tried, sentenced to ten years’ hard labor, and exiled to Siberia.”
― Seth Greenland, I Regret Everything: A Love Story