19 Quotes by Allison Winn Scotch

But what’s regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it’s a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn’t know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

I’m better at life with you in it.

The strangest thing about returning to an enclave that encapsulated your youth is that you feel like nothing should have changed. Like you still have the right to be twenty and carefree and irresponsible. Like you still are twenty and carefree and irresponsible.

The past is who you are. The future is what you do with that.

It gets easier. Eventually you figure out what went wrong and you sort of breathe a sigh of relief that you didn’t make a more permanent mistake. And then you just hope that you find someone who won’t end up being another misstep.

Mostly, people are who they are. But if you accept this about them, you can move forward and build from there – then, they can surprise you.

There is a moment in every relationship when one of the parties senses its imminent demise. There’s a moment of incredible clarity when your stomach drops with a heavy sense of dread, and you feel like control is slipping through your fingertips even as you try to hold on.

You get what you get. You do what you have to do. You stop crying. You stop sleeping. You turn yourself into someone to be reckoned with. You become a straight line, and then you become an arrow.

They occupied a space in her life, but they didn’t take up space, which were two very different things.