“But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.”
“That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”
“Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.”
“There can be second chances. But maybe it's also true that things can never be the same, and that you have to decide whether the second chance lives up to the first.”
“I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on. And sometimes you'll be the one to give the second chance to someone else.”
“The thing with do-overs it’s that they don’t exist. Second chances are just another chance to mess up.”