Gabrielle Zevin Quotes

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

Everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. There are many things you can go back and have regrets about. I don't like doing that. But by the same token I do agree that when you get to a certain stage in life, you change. And you should change.

I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.

I don't regret anything in life.

Having a collection of regrets when you hit your 40s is part of the deal.

I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything.

I didn't go to uni and although I don't have regrets in my life, I have two nephews and I'd encourage them to go to uni as I don't think you need to grow up too quick.

If I have to start my career afresh, I would like to repeat everything, good or bad, which I did in the past 33 years.

I'm not really one for regrets, but one thing I do wish is that I'd gone down south sooner.

Every choice leads you somewhere, but it might not be where you truly want to be if the decision is based on someone else. It could lead to regrets and what-ifs, but that doesn't mean you wouldn't still have valuable experiences.

I'm lucky that I don't have any big regrets. Maybe that undercut hairstyle from my youth.

I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can't rush things, feel remorse or regret.

I was 39 when I did, essentially, a three-quarter sleeve on my left arm. It was very late in life, which is good: I can't think of any decision I made at 19 that I'd be happy with at 39 or even now, at 51.

I don't regret a single day of my life.

You do something when you're 20, and you're still paying for it when you're 40.

My life is not a sound bite.

I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.

Having regrets is the only sign that you’ve done anything interesting with your life.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.

I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

I do wish that I had gone to college, just for the simple fact that knowing more than one approach makes you more well-rounded. But I still can't say knowing what I know now, that I would have done it any differently.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.