Megan McCafferty Quotes

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

We all have those dreams of going back in time and seeing what it was like when our parents were younger. Maybe we don't all have that dream. I don't know. Getting to role play or step back to a different moment in time and see things through a different lens is something that resonated with me, for sure. We don't get to do that, generally, but when the right neurological disorder lines up with the right unstable woman, that moment presents itself. Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.

That's not a thing any of us are granted. To go back. Wipe away what later doesn't suit us and make it the way we wish it. You just go on

I look at the past and I see myself.

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.

In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

If I was starting off now, I would probably have taken one or two different turnings along the way.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

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

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

It is something if circumstances were repeated I would not do again.

Should I get back to playing like the 18-year-old Mario Gotze again? I will never be the old Mario Gotze again.

If you were to ask me would I change anything or could I go back to the past and change anything, I really wouldn't.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.