" Youth is spent looking ahead,” he starts, “toward the future, toward the life you want to build for yourself and the ones you come to love. Everything is new and you rush through the years, the decades, as though the end will never come. But when you’ve lived long enough, you begin to look back at the things that you did … or didn’t do. Sometimes it fills you with a regret for never having stopped to appreciate everything you had during those halcyon days. "

― Kat Kruger , The Night Has Claws (Lycan Code Book 2)