F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

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.

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• 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
  • She
  • Future
  • Past