C. S. Lewis Quotes

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

I've lost a bunch of friends - some of them in jail, some of them made bad choices, some of them aren't where they should be.

Bad choices make good stories.

Basically, when I did 'Infinity' in 1997, I had thoughts in my head that left me with a lot of questions. I've gone to certain personal limits with 'Infinity' that, at the end of it, I think, scared me. And I've made a lot of really kinda bad mistakes as a result of that.

Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.

Bad choices make good stories.

It was possible, he understood, for a person's life to become just a long series of mistakes, and that the end, when it came, was just one more mistake in a chain of bad choices. The thing was, most of these mistakes were actually borrowed from other people. You took their bad ideas, and for whatever reason, made them your own.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

I made mistakes and I broke the law and I'm more than willing to pay a price for that. But there's a price beyond that that my children have paid, and that's not what was supposed to happen.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)

No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones.

Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it.

The Past is such a curious Creature To look her in the Face A Transport may receipt us Or a Disgrace-.

Don't make the kinds of mistakes that will bring regret.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

What I wished more than anything was that the thing hadn't happened at all, and I thought that by not mentioning it I'd be doing everyone else a favor.

See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me―a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.

Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things.