The Second Chance Quotes

“Just promise me that you’ll always say hello to strangers.’ ‘I will.’ ‘Say it.’ Nell laughed, her eyes filling up again. ‘I promise that I’ll always say hello to strangers.’ ‘And you’ll never save anything for best. You’ll always drink out of the finest crystal.’ ‘Should I ever own crystal, I will drink out of it every day.’ ‘Good girl, now give me a kiss and go and live your life.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“There’s nothing sadder than a life less lived.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“She’d made her peace with dying, but not really with living.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“I know you know, but sometimes you just need to tell people how you feel, don’t you, because they can forget. And you might think that they know, but if you don’t say it how can you?”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“you’re faced with this big expanse of life that you didn’t know you’d have.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“I really don’t think love can be defined in a certain way and everyone feels it the same, that’s impossible. Human connections are so complex, it can’t be put into a neat little box labelled Love surely?”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“Do you ever stop to consider that everything isn’t preplanned by the universe and we’re all just muddling along until we die?”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“A life is just that, a string of days tied together.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“Juno looked wistful for a moment. ‘You say goodbye a lot when you get older. More goodbyes than hellos.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“Leaving is so much easier than staying put,’ Polly said. ‘You think that you were the braver one because you strapped on a backpack and went into the unknown, but it took a different type of strength to stay and deal with everything without running away.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“Just as long as you are living the life you want to live?”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance

“it wasn’t just the things you had or didn’t have that were different depending what life path you choose, but also the things that you had to learn.”
― Charlotte Butterfield, The Second Chance