“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one.”
Wallace Stegner in Angle of Repose.
“The problem is it takes most of us most of our lives to understand what we should have known from the beginning.”
Leon Uris in Trinity.
“Though finally the worst thing about regret is that it makes you duck the chance of suffering new regret just as you get a glimmer that nothing’s worth doing unless it has the potential to fuck up your whole life.”
Richard Ford in Independence Day.