Undone Quotes

“I know it's a crock of shit. I ain't offering you happily-ever-after. I'm offering you... happily-maybe-sometimes-ever-after. Sort of. You know, with warts and shit." -Thayer”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.”
― Enid Blyton, House at the Corner

“He was a finisher who could not finish. He was the heart of a hunter who lacked the heart to kill.

In her journal she had written I am humanity, and something in those three words split him in two.

She was the may fly, here for a day, then gone. She was the last star, burning bright in a sea of limitless black.

Erase the human.

In a burst of blinding light, the star Cassiopeia exploded and the world went black.

Evan Walker had been undone.”
― Rick Yancey, The Last Star

“...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.”
― Paul Hoffman, The Last Four Things

“There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.”
― Lisa Gardner, The Neighbor

“If you can't do it, don't pledge to do it. Don't be a liar; say only what you can do. It's better for you to have a "single sentence" manifesto about your life which is fulfilled than to have 25 chapters' theories about your visions that remain undone!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn the unturned.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Love does that. It changes you in ways that can't be undone”
― Christina Henry, The Mermaid

“Lilies used to be a movie theatre, before. Students went there a lot; every spring they had a Humphrey Bogart festival, with Lauren Bacall or Katherine Hepburn, women on their own, making up their minds. They wore blouses with buttons down the front that suggested the possibilities of the word 'undone'. These women could not be undone; or not. They seemed to be able to choose.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“What’s done cannot be undone.”
― Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road

“He presses his mouth to the pulse point of my wrist, racing in time with my heart. 'Mock me all you like. Whatever I imagined then, now it is I who would beg and grovel for a kind word from your lips.' His eyes are black with desire. 'By you, I am forever undone.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound

“until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“I often think myself to be so ingenious that I don’t even realize that my own plans may actually be my own undoing. Therefore, I might be wise to realize that God’s plans undo what I’ve done that’s undoing me.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“it felt like permission. The kind I hadn't let myself have for six months. The kind of permission that I'd been waiting for, as I sat alone in my aunt's apartment, and grief welled up so high it felt suffocating. The permission I thought I'd given myself, but it hadn't been permission to cry - it had been a command to be strong. To be okay. I told myself, over and over, I had to be okay.
And finally - finally - someone gave me permission to come undone.”
― Ashley Poston, The Seven Year Slip

“Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

“And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.”
― Paul Russell, The Coming Storm

“She's just come undone," her mother had whispered on the phone to her aunt Bella. It was an old colloquialism, the sort of thing you didn't think people still said.

The phrase fit Sara so completely that she had found herself surrendering to it, imagining her arms and her legs detaching from her body. What did it matter? What did she need arms or legs or hands or feet for if she couldn't run to him, hold him, touch him?”
― Karin Slaughter, Undone

“There was a lonely summer

Where I took the string and unraveled the magic circle from everything

It was because of you, and what you did to me”
― Dorothea Lasky, Rome: Poems

“I cannot seem to contort myself back in to the shape of a dutiful child.

I am becoming unravelled. I am becoming undone.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“And our desire to know
Each other and desert
Each other for new
Centers of meaning so that
The boundaries may reign
And in doing so be undone.”
― Rob Schlegel

“Somewhere in every life there is a line.
One side to the other and you are gone.
Not disappeared, but undone.”
― Tracy K. Smith, Duende

“Sorry,' he whispered against my lips. 'I know I should've asked you first, but your laugh... It undoes me, Poppy.' He slid his hands over my cheeks, his fingers not hesitating when they reached the scars. 'You're more than welcome to punch me for it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire

“Outside the snow continued its diligent job of covering up the earth’s scars and imperfections, till one day it would melt and everything would come undone. And time would march on, seemingly never ending, yet always just at the edge of collapse.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Dying in Champoussin

“Every done is possible to undo; if it is impossible, maintaining and improving is better than leaving it undone.”
― Ehsan Sehgal