“... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.”
“Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.”
“[...] you're willing to look past things and to give people second chances. But the thing is, Rose, some people don't deserve them.”
“When people try to take their own lives, they often don’t want to be brought back. When you catch them in time, as is this case, they have a second chance. But they have to want that chance. You see Mrs. Whitman, I have no idea why your daughter did this to herself, but she seems to have no will to live.”
“I only came to give you a second chance.”
“Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.”