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Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
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what-if
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Nicholas Sparks |
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At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful?
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disappointed
feeling
felt
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in-love
love
no-peace
not-rather
painful
times
use
what-if
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Larry McMurtry |
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Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful.
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future
useful
what-if
whatif
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Brian Jacques |
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All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination. And this one is Teddy's.
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alternate-universe
ending
heartbreaking
heartwrenching
imagination
kate-atkinson
last-lines
sad
tearjerker
teddy-todd
twist-ending
what-if
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Kate Atkinson |
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And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
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what-if
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Colum McCann |
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If Tony hadn't been fearful, hadn't counted on the approval of others for his own self-approval . . . and so on, through a succession of hypotheticals leading to the final one: so, for instance, if Tony hadn't been Tony.
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in-another-life
julian-barnes
regret
sad
the-sense-of-an-ending
what-if
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Julian Barnes |