“Caroline Waverly: Sometimes we hurt more for what might have been than for what is.”
Source: Carnal Innocence
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Nora Roberts 124
American romance writer 1950Related quotes
“Sometimes, questions are more hurtful than insults.”
The First Phone Call from Heaven
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book V : The High King (1968), Chapter 21
Context: “How then?” Taran asked. “Could The Book of Three deceive you?”
“No, it could not.” Dallben said. “The book is thus called because it tells all three parts of our lives: the past, the present, and the future. But it could as well be called a book of ‘if.’ If you had failed at your tasks; if you had followed an evil path; if you had been slain; if you had not chosen as you did — a thousand ‘ifs,’ my boy, and many times a thousand. The Book of Three can say no more than ‘if’ until at the end, of all things that might have been, one alone becomes what really is. For the deeds of a man, not the words of a prophecy, are what shape his destiny.”
“Sometimes the love you'll feel after you've been hurt is stronger than ever.”
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 124
“What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.”
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
About Malaysia Airlines MH370, quoted on BBC News, "Malaysia flight MH370: New data 'shows possible debris'" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26705073, March 23, 2014.
2014
“THE ODIUM
Did you know,
that lack of touch
sometimes hurts more
than a strike?”
Among the things (2012), Page 134, the whole piece