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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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possibility
what-if
regrets
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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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love
no-peace
not-rather
disappointed
felt
times
feeling
her
what-if
painful
use
in-love
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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
whatif
useful
what-if
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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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imagination
heartwrenching
teddy-todd
alternate-universe
twist-ending
tearjerker
kate-atkinson
last-lines
heartbreaking
what-if
ending
sad
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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
what-if
the-sense-of-an-ending
julian-barnes
regret
sad
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Julian Barnes |