# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Stardust

> "If you ever get to be my age", said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run".

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Stardust](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stardust_(Gaiman_novel)#Chapter_Ten:_Stardust) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/if-you-ever

## More from this book

> I ran from him. But he found me and bound me with an obligation, which binds my kind more securely than any chain ever could.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/i-ran-from.md)

> Every boy in the village was in love with Victoria Forester. And many a sedate gentleman, quietly married with grey in his beard, would stare at her as she walked down the street, becoming, for a few moments, a boy once more, in the spring of his years with a spring in his step.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/every-boy-in-the.md)

> "And if I brought you the fallen star?" asked Tristran lightly. "What would you give me? A kiss? Your hand in marriage?"
>
> "Anything you desire", said Victoria, amused.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/stardust/and-if-i-brought.md)