Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing Quotes

“You get what you get. You do what you have to do. You stop crying. You stop sleeping. You turn yourself into someone to be reckoned with. You become a straight line, and then you become an arrow.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“Oh, Topher,” Veronica said with even less patience than before. “Only a man would think that regrets were a liability.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“Women who were constantly apologizing were at a disadvantage in any negotiation and, of course, taken less seriously, because who wants advice or counsel from someone who is sorry before they’ve even convinced you of anything?”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“They occupied a space in her life, but they didn’t take up space, which were two very different things.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“figure if a girl wants to be a legend, she should go ahead and be one. —Calamity Jane”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“It wasn’t how she would do it now, and she didn’t want to excuse it, but then, that’s what regrets were, after all. How you looked back and realized how different it should have been.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“That was how regrets worked, she supposed, there in his office, with the heavy cloud of hindsight. It wasn’t the murky middle parts or even the earth-shattering consequences that you so often wished you could go back and redo. It was the inception, of stopping something even before it began, that you lingered on. That moment, that was the one to change—the one at the start before it all got messy.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“Undergrad was still in session, wrapping up in the weeks as spring ebbed into summer, and younger versions of who she used to be scurried around them everywhere, backpacks weighing down their shoulders, messy buns atop their heads, iced coffees on hand to push them through their weekend cram sessions.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“It was amazing, Cleo thought, her thumb scrolling downward through the comments, how society had done this—conditioned women to eat their own likenesses so they didn’t realize that if they banded together, they’d be unstoppable.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“These are our bodies.” Arianna shrugged. “Men should be grateful to be seeing them at all.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“she knew the loss was there, but if she paid too much attention to it, it would override everything.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“People should be allowed their secrets. People should be allowed their scars.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“The point of life wasn't to go back and litigate all those mistakes. The point, Cleo supposed, was to do better.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“Theoretically, politics was about bridging divides. Realistically, it was mostly every man (and woman) for themselves.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“But politics was a bit like chess: you had to move with an eye on the whole board, with a 360-degree view of what would come next and the move after that.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“That was the opposite of regret, she decided. That was living.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“People can be cheering for you, Cleo, and also thinking you’re starting to lose your mind. Two things can be true at once.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“It sucks that he did that to you.” “I was consenting.” Cleo didn’t know why she kept excusing the situation with that. Consenting and unethical were two different things.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“Cleo didn’t want Bowen, or even Gaby, to tell her how to stay safe in a storm. She didn’t want Matty to ask who looked out for her. She did. That was just how it had been since she was seventeen. Besides,”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“she never lied to them, never told them things they wanted to hear just to gain their votes. Almost inevitably when you glossed over difficult truths, it meant that you got their votes but eventually lost their trust, and that was not a viable long-term plan. It”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“When you lose your parents young, there is simply a blight on your psyche that becomes part of your being. Really,”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“that, we are not the type of people who chase down others who spurn us.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“conditioned women to eat their own likenesses so they didn’t realize that if they banded together, they’d be unstoppable.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“The right thing to do is often not the most prudent thing to do,”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“That thing you do where you don’t give people a chance before they’ve had any chances in the first place.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“what”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“continued.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“humiliate!”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“streak.”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing

“brought”
― Allison Winn Scotch, Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing