Sarah Dessen Quotes

What's done can't be undone.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

It is too late; now I wish I could live.

I wouldn't change a single thing, because one change alters every moment that follows it.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

The past is the past, and I can't go back in time to change anything.

You can't regret anything - it's over with.

I know, but no matter what I choose I have to live with it. Forever. I have to be able to go forward and not look back anymore. Can you understand that?

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

We don't have to start all over again and try to keep the slate clean. There is no more slate.

Accept life, and you must accept regret.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

the biggest tragedy of life is the utter impossibility to change what you have done

We must be careful what we say. No bird resumes its egg.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.