Lily Gardner > Lily's Quotes

“I had my chance.' He said it, retiring from a lifetime of wanting. 'I had my chance, and sometimes in life, there are no second chances. You look at what you have, not what you miss, and you move forward.”
― Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
― Bryce Courtenay

“The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still look viable. Lammers wasn't one of those. Lammers was one of those crack-in-the-ass guys ten months pregnant with a beer baby.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“And he hated himself and hated her,too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.”
― Dennis Lehane, The Given Day

“That was the thing about luck: its laws were those of scarcity.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“It's always easy to look back and see where you could've played the hand differently once all the cards are on the table.”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind

“We're all swimmers in the river of time...Just you wait, sister. Spending your days anticipating when you'll see your lover, anticipating your next paycheck, next party, next episode of blah blah blah—and poof! You're thirty-nine and wondering where the hell the time went.”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind

“Bad news. If you can see it coming, you brace yourself; you weigh the outcome. But there's always that niggling voice, that voice of hope whispering, 'Maybe it's good news.' Whether you can admit it or not, that little whisper is a potent thing.”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind