“I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .”
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
“Do you love me?’ he asked instead. ‘Because if you don’t, I’d wait until you did. I’d wait weeks and months and years.”
“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”
“If I had three magic wishes, I’d use the first wish for one more, to replace the one I just wasted wishing for something I already had.”
“Even if we had gone away together when I wanted us to, we would've been together for a year, maybe two. But sooner or later, other people would've found a way to wedge us apart.”