Jay Asher Quotes

I would rather go while I am being urged to stay, than to stay beyond the time when I should go

I wish I hadn't said I'm going to retire.

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

I feel that I'm leaving Williamstown too early, but I'd rather leave too early than too late.

I don't regret leaving Napoli.

Maybe there is some regret with how I left Southampton.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but I was maybe too quick to leave Fulham.

Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.

You touch some of the reasons for my going, not for my staying away.

I wonder whether she was sorry for leaving us behind.

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long.

I did not run away, I walked away by daylight….

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Leaving was easy. It was everything else that was so damned hard.

My friend Terry says that when you need to make a decision, in your work or otherwise, and you don’t know what to do, just do one thing or the other, because the worst that can happen is that you will have made a terrible mistake.

When you know that somebody lost their loved one as a result of a decision that I made, that's a tough moment. If you're a faithful person you try to empathize with the suffering that that person is going through.

It's hard to do," I said. Wes looked at me. "What is?" I swallowed, not sure why I'd said this out loud. "Get it right.

That was my decision, so I have to be responsible for that. It was one of the biggest mistakes of my life and I don't have a good reason for why I wanted to come back, I don't have a good reason for doing it all.

Do it or don't do it - you will regret both.

You'll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.