Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be. (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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