Whitney Stevenson

“We don’t sit around watching while they make mistakes. We at least try to stop them from doing things we know they are going to regret.” “You realize I was talking about children as opposed to grown people?” “Do the same principles not apply?” She nodded. “I guess they do.” Then she took my hand and put it to her face. Josh and Peter squirmed beside her, curling in against her legs. “So that’s what you’re trying to do?” my mother said. “Stop the people you love from doing what they’ll regret?” “Yes. Exactly.” She kissed the inside of my palm. “But which way is regret?”
― Laura Dave, Eight Hundred Grapes