Lisa See Quotes

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

When something you love gets taken away, it hurts you.

You never say and do the things you wish you had said or done when someone close to you may not be around in awhile. Closure is impossible; that's the heart of the grief you will carry with you for the rest of your life.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.

Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I never meant to hurt you, Isabel. Had I known what I would find when I came north, I would never have agreed to Leighton's request... That is a lie. Had I known that I would find you when I came north, I would have come years ago.

Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.

I spent the rest of the day doing little more than that. I skipped dinner. I shed a few tears. But mostly, I just sat on my bed thinking and growing more and more depressed. I also discovered the only thing worse than imagining Dimitri and Tasha together was remembering when he and I had been together. He would never touch me again like that, never kiss me again.

He broke my heart, and now it's raining, just to rub it in.

If only' repeated again and again in her head like a battering ram...'if only' could break your heart.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

There are many things that I feel I have missed out on.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.

Music breaks my heart constantly.

I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.

I am sick at heart at the mistakes and lost opportunities that are so prevalent.

My late wife - she died of cancer. We tried everything we could do to save her. I wish that I could have done more and that I could have been with her at the moment she passed away. I couldn't be in that room because I knew it would be so devastating that I wouldn't be able to take care of the kids after.

A loss feels like a loss.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.