“It is true that I hadwanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting havingbeen born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have beenborn, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass onlife to someone else.”

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”

“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.”

“I still loved Marc desperately and couldn’t imagine life without him. Jace was…something else. Something I could feel but couldn’t articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn’t been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.”

“I was in love with her; couldn’t imagine my life without her in it; but at the same time, I wanted her to have better.”

“I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.”