Half a Chance Quotes

“It's hard to think of anything being gone forever. Most things that go come back again, even if they're a little different when they return. But not always, and when something has gone forever, it can hurt so much you start wondering if it would've been easier if you'd never had it at all.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“At some point, you just have to choose. And then be brave enough to stand up to the people who think you made the wrong choice.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Good-bye isn't the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it's simply time to go.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“(I)t's just as important to show the hard things in the world as it is to show the beautiful ones. Even in the midst of horrible things, there are little bits of wonder, and all of it's true.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Good things matter, even when they don't last forever.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“It must take some courage to fly, to trust the wind to hold you as it lifts you away from all you've ever known. To know inside that you're heading where you're meant to go—even if you've never been there before. And that 'I hope so' will be enough to get you there.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“there’s”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“If you can get people to care about the little things, they'll care about the big things, too.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Even half a chance beats none.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Oh, people will think what they think!...Don't ever choose the people who don't matter over the ones who do.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Yeah, but 'beyond reach' means you want to reach something. It's more than far away; there's an absence. Missing something you can't have.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“One thing I know about being in a three-way friendship is that you'd better not let the other two spend too much time without you, or it turns into a two-way friendship, minus you.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Looking at the poster, I thought, Maybe we can't solve every big problem, but we can try to solve the ones we can.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“As we continued upward, I thought about how adults sometimes complain that kids only think about ourselves, but it's not true. We care a lot about other people, but most times, we don't have the power to change things for them.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“how”
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“farther,”
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“photos”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“loons”
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“have”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Nate”
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“right”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Good-bye isn’t the worst thing in the world. Sometimes it’s simply time to go.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“Oh, people will think what they think!” Grandma Lilah said. “Don’t ever choose the people who don’t matter over the ones who do.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“I imagined Dad beside me: “It’s pretty,” he’d say. “But pretty isn’t enough for a great photograph. Show me why I care. What’s the story?”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“I felt a shiver of excitement to feel the kayak cutting through the water, the whole lake open to me. The morning sun slanted gold, making the pink of my kayak stand out warm and vibrant against the dark blue water and green trees on the far side of the lake.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“world as it is to show the beautiful ones.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“One thing I’d learned about moving was that once you were there, it was better to just look ahead. Because even if you went back to visit the places and people you left behind, it was never the same — except in photos.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance

“New friendships break pretty easily if something goes wrong at the beginning.”
― Cynthia Lord, Half a Chance