“The hardest memories are the pieces of what might have been.”

“Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.”

C.G. Jung (1875–1961) Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology

“The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.”

Jodi Picoult Change of Heart

“My sister, who never understood most of the things I wanted her to, might have been able to understand what had happened to me in this summer of weddings and beginnings. And she was right. The first boy was always the hardest. page 40000”

Sarah Dessen book That Summer

“It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

“What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator

“I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

“Ah, who will write the history of what might have been?”

José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

“If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.”

Charles Stross book Glasshouse