"The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser."

-- Beverly Cleary

#Regret Quotes #Grief Quotes #Boys Quotes

“If we could sell 100,000 units every album, that would rock. We'd have a big cult following, we'd have a built-in fanbase so we could pretty much play anywhere, people would show up and rock out”
“But how ridiculous that I should bereft simply because I couldnâ€™t spend hours in my world of make-believe! Wasnâ€™t the reality of my life interesting enough? This is surely the time to let go of grievances, I told myself sternly. What good does it do to dwell on them? Brooding on a nest of grudges will only hatch more grief.”
“Om is the bow, the arrow is soul,”
“... life is a flickering candle we all carry around. A gust of wind, a meaningless accident, a microsecond of carelessness, and it's out. Forever.”

Source : David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.133, Titan Books
“The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is â€” not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think things for himself.”
“I brought you in this world, and I can take you out!”
“Peace in Palestine is inevitable. The question is how do we make it happen today.”
“I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.”

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