“ All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy's. Kate Atkinson
“ I was never really about the money. Every business I've ever started has been more of a curiosity and a kind of "What if... Blake Mycoskie
“ At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. What was the use of it, if it was only going to be painful? Larry McMurtry
“ White stars don't mix with the dark blackness of the universe. If they did... everything would be grey Erik Tanghe
“ Don't spend your life wondering "what if" and worrying over something you have no control. What's done is done. Looking backwards will cause you to miss out on new blessings ahead. Move on. Germany Kent
“ We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character. Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“ Two questions form the foundation of all novels: "What if?" and "What next?" (A third question, "What now?", is one the author asks himself every 10 minutes or so; but it's more a cry than a question.… Tom Clancy
“ Don't think about what you could have done, concentrate on what you plan to do; it is more useful. Brian Jacques
“ Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn… Nicholas Sparks
“ If Tony hadn't been fearful, hadn't counted on the approval of others for his own self-approval . . . and so on, through a succession of hypotheticals leading to the final one: so, for instance, if To… Julian Barnes
“ He saw with sorrow that hers was a life he could step right into and keep working at hard from tonight until death. If he allowed himself to ponder it for a minute, he saw all the world hanging over t… Charles Frazier
“ But what if you're wrong?What if there's more?What if there's hope you never dreamed of hoping for?What if you jump?And just close your eyes?What if the arms that catch you, catch you by surprise?What… Nichole Nordeman
“ And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening. Colum McCann
“ I missed my mother's father. Is that even possible? Maybe I had fallen asleep for a while. Maybe I was like her, just waking up and looking for him to be there. I wondered how it would have changed th… Ann Patchett
“ But that's the thing with the what-if game-- you really can never know the answer to the question. And maybe it's better that way. Elizabeth Eulberg
“ I'd always thought that in another world, in another time, if he hadn't been so crazy abusive, Tristan and I could have been a beautiful thing. Our connection could have been the work of art that ever… A. Violet End