Jenny

“He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.”
― Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder

“I'd rather be a free spinster and paddle my own canoe.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“Fool, there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.”
― Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy

“No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older.”
― Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool