“I don’t regret anything I’ve ever done in life, any choice that I’ve made. But I’m consumed with regret for the things I didn’t do, the choices I didn’t make, the things I didn’t say. We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. “What if…” “If only…” “I wonder what would have…” You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“But that’s the danger of isolation; it lures you in with the deceptive promise of protecting you and then it feasts on your spirit.”
― Call Me Cockroach
― Call Me Cockroach
“Life is a series of cycles—each nothing but new people, new memories, and eventually, a new ending.”
― A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
― A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
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