If only…the saddest words in the English language.

— Kristan Higgins

If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality,if only...However sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.

— Dalal Gabara

A dream so vibrant,A dream so blissful;I hold it close to my heart.In anxious nights,And days of hope;These years have passed solely.One day the dream to turn true- If only!

— Somya Kedia

We are past the end of things now, but I don't want to leave.

— Richard Ford

We could have been the greatest love story ever told.If only you'd stayed in character.

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

If only I knew... If only baby... If only...

— Anya

If only there was a way to escape this reality, if only there was a way to erase all this formality, if only there was a way to figure out your mentality, if only there was a way to rid all the theatricality, if only...However sadly all we think of is practicality, so we will never reach any finality.

— Dalal Gebara

They should make earplugs for people who are grieving, so we don't have to hear the stupid things people say, but I'd look like a dork in them.' -Corinna.

— Carole Geithner

Death is number one on the list of things that we wish were possible to leave behind when we escaped barbarism.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the stop button at just one moment to stop everything that came after. I had so many If Onlys, but each place I thought to stop meant missing something that came later. I needed it all, in the end, to make my own story find its finish.

— Sarah Dessen