missed opportunities Quotes

“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”

“I could have done a hundred things different, but it was too late now.”

They had met and passed each other on the street a dozen times without any sign of recognition and every time Anne had held her head a little higher and wished a little more earnestly that she had made friends with Gilbert when he asked her, and vowed a little more determinedly to surpass him in the examination.