Path Not Taken Quotes

“If you have been embroiled in a war in which you confidently expected to die, what were you supposed to do with so much life unexpectedly left over? There were so many ways of passing the peace, and you would never know what they would have been like, those roads not taken.”
― Louis de Bernières, So Much Life Left Over

“What about your past? How often would you travel there, given the chance? Often? Never? And when you got there, would you think about staying forever?”
― Helen Fisher, Faye, Faraway