“I didn't sob, I didn't wail, I didn't whimper... because those are all things that dead people cannot do.”
“I didn't do things because I didn't want him to think different about me.”
“I was angry all the time about the future I didn't want with people I didn't like. But I didn't know what I wanted - so what else was there to do?”
“so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.”
“The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.”
“I think about all of the things I've done, Oskar. And all of the things I didn't do. The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”