Terry Brooks Quotes

Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.

Nilda is watching the ground as though she's afraid she might fall. My heart is beating and I think, We could do anything. We could marry. We could drive off to the West Coast. We could start over. It's all possible but neither of us speaks for a long time and the moment closes and we're back in the world we've always known.

I don't like to approach people that much. There's been times when I wanted to say something to somebody, in a quick moment, but didn't. Then you think, man, who knows?

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.

Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.

Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

The possibilities. Is there any greater pain to know what could be, and yet be powerless to make it be?

Change is inevitable, though," he replied. "As is disappointment. Best to get used to it now.

I'm always sorry when pleasant things end. Something still pleasanter may come after, but you can never be sure.

I know what I want and what I might gain, and yet, how profitless to know.

My mother raised me to be bold. If I do not go, I will spend the rest of my life wondering what might have happened if I had." "If you do go, the rest of your life may be too short for wondering. - Asha & Rodrick

Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

She had lived her early years as though she were waiting for something she might, but never did, become.

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.