“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.”
“Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.”
“The days of my vanity are over and heaven knows they weren't happy enough to regret”
“It was a rebus of heartbreak, misfortune a dog could parse.”
“It was too heartbreaking to live with so many separations.”
“I tried to live cautiously - or eventually learned to try to live - in a spirit of regret prevention, and I could not see how Bonnie could accomplish such a thing in this situation. Regret - operatic, oceanic, fathomless - seemed to stretch before her in every direction. No matter which path she took, regret would stain her feet and scratch her arms and rain down on her, lightlessly and lifelong. It had already begun.”