Jenny Han Quotes

No matter how happy anyone is with their choices, I believe it's human nature to wonder about the path not taken.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed. At that moment all Will's choices existed at once. But to keep them all in existence meant doing nothing. He had to choose, after all.

Might have gone further and have fared worse.

I always want my options to be open.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.

One always wonders about roads not taken.

Life is full of what-ifs, many of which could easily have been realities, had just a few things been different.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

It's always so early in here, before the crossroads, before the irrevocable choices. Thank you for this life! Still I miss the alternatives. The sketches, all of them, want to become real.

If there wasn't mystery, people wouldn't have anything to ponder. If you already knew everything, you wouldn't have anything to think about and life would just be really boring.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

As one looks back over history it is interesting to speculate on what would have happened if individuals or nations had acted differently in certain crises. I often wonder if these speculations will serve to give any of us more courage in facing new situations!

You don't want to leave 'what if's in life.

Even if you're happy with the life you've chosen, you're still curious about the other options.

You never know, when you commit to something, what else could have been. I'm so bored with that concept anymore. 'If only I didn't do this, I could have done this.' It was in front of me, they asked me to do it, and it seemed like good timing.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

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.

Your wedding completely changes the direction of your life, you know, no matter how greatly you desire it. I think that moment of doubt and faintness comes from all those imagined and now impossible futures all pressing in on you at once. It is your last chance to experience them, you see, and they all want to be lived at that moment.

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

Whether it happened so or not I do not know; but if you think about it you can see that it is true.

do u ever think, when ur all alone, all tht we could be, where this can go, am i crazy, or falling in love?

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.