Jenny Zhang Quotes

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

That's the way I've been educated: I always think about what I missed and the things that you did, you did them, so you don't have to think about them any more.

Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.

With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.

Life has kicked me hard, hasn't it? Some of it's my fault, some of it's not my fault.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

They say it's like true love, good help. you only get one in a lifetime.....there is so much you don't know about a person. i wonder if i could've made her days a little bit easier, if I'd tried. if i'd treated her a little nicer.

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

Honestly...how did I do as a big sister?

Remorse begets reform.

The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.

Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

You have just got to face the facts, don't you? I face it head-on. I knew what I was coming in to. I didn't make the impact I hoped for and I believed in.

I gave you life. You’re wasting it.

A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.

I have been to the world's end and back and now I know what I would put in my bottom drawer .I would put my sisters.

I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

We must know, as much as possible, in our beautiful art...what we are talking about and the only way to know is to have lived and loved and cursed and floundered and enjoyed and suffered. I think I don't regret a single "excess" of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.