The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
Scott SpencerThe trouble with excuses, however, is that they become inevitably difficult to believe after theyโve been used a couple of times.
Scott SpencerIt was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.
Scott SpencerI thought of my mother (...). Freud wrote that no man is secure in the love of his mother can ever be a failure. Well, I had been busy proving that theory wrong.
Scott SpencerI try to know as much as I can about a book before the beginning, but I never know exactly where it's going to end.
Scott SpencerYou're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.
Scott SpencerNo pain could match the emptiness of separation, no agony rivaled the unreality of not being with her.
Scott SpencerI never felt so large and important as I did when being in love was everything. I saw you walking a foot above the earth and I remembered that was where I used to walk.
Scott SpencerA novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.
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