The Last Second Chance Quotes

“We must be our own before we can be another’s.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“Don’t ever let anyone make you feel less than, and that includes yourself,”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“If we waited to go for something until we feel worthy, no one would ever do anything.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“I didn’t have to change everyone else in my life to make me happy. I just had to remember who I was.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“I realized I didn’t have to change everyone else in my life to make me happy, I just had to remember who I was.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“And by example, he’d shown his sons how to live. Treading lightly on the earth, moving easily with the natural rhythms of the world. Honoring where you came from while always sharing what you were lucky enough to have.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“He wouldn’t be the other half of a couple, at least not yet. It was one of the dangers of love so young. Being half of a couple often comes before being a whole person.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“what are you trying to prove and to who?”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“Her bedroom door was ajar. “Hey, Mom, are we going or—” “You’re early!” “Oh my God.” Jax turned to run out of the room and tripped over a box in the hallway. He almost went head first down the carpeted stairs but managed to catch himself on the railing only skidding down two stairs on his stomach. “Jax, honey, are you okay?” his mom called. “Don’t come out here! Not until you put some clothes on.” “Sorry about that, Jax. Didn’t realize it was so late.” Franklin peeked out of the bedroom. His lack of wardrobe was blatantly evident. “Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“Were you aware that hell froze over, by the way? Other than that, it’s been a nice quiet day”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“Har har. Very funny. I’ll have you know I’m a reformed dishonest relationship haver.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“When you’re not honest about shit, shit comes back to bite you in the ass,” Carter preached.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“It was one of the dangers of love so young. Being half of a couple often comes before being a whole person.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“What did matter is we took a moment, a slice of a day, and did with it exactly as we wished. A lesson I could never iterate in a father’s lecture but one so essential to the way a man lives. Find your slice and live it.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“If we waited to go for something until we feel worthy, no one would ever do anything.” “But if I can make a go of this place—” “If you can, you can. If you can’t, you’ll do something else. That’s what life is all about. Living. Trying. Loving.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“But you can’t. Because they aren’t just a piece of you. They are a human being learning how to survive and thrive in this world. And if you clean up every mess and bandage every scrape and shield them from every hurt, you take that self-reliance away from them. And that is what turns children into good men and women.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“explained to her that that’s the direction I’d like to see us move in, and if she’s not ready for such a commitment, I’d understand, and we could still be friends. She’s not the only Oceana in the sea, and if we weren’t meant to be, we weren’t meant to be.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“My pretty little introvert.” “I thought I was just grumpy.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“You’re good enough just by being born. So stop trying to prove yourself by working yourself into exhaustion trying to be eight different people and work twenty hours a day. Do what you want to do, not what you think you have to do.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“I realized I didn’t have to change everyone else in my life to make me happy. I just had to remember who I was.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“I’ve found if you’ve done your job as well as you can, when it’s time to hand over your work to the next person, the next stage, there’s no room for worrying about the outcome.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“that’s part of being an adult. Holding up a mirror to yourself and seeing those glorious flaws.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“Mattering. Connecting. Resonating.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“before”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“We must be our own before we can be another’s. — Ralph Waldo Emerson”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“Because I realized I didn’t have to change everyone else in my life to make me happy. I just had to remember who I was.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“There is nothing like being a parent. A piece of you is walking around the earth maybe with your eyes and your wife’s smile. And that piece of you has to grow up and build his or her own life, feel the pain of that life, and find the joy in that life. When you see that piece of you hurt and scared, it is a horrible, helpless feeling. Because you just want to fix it, swoop in and take over and solve the problems and protect them from this hurt. But you can’t. Because they aren’t just a piece of you. They are a human being learning how to survive and thrive in this world. And if you clean up every mess and bandage every scrape and shield them from every hurt, you take that self-reliance away from them. And that is what turns children into good men and women.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“I’d learned long ago that actions spoke louder than words with my Phoebe. A man could say “I love you” ‘til he was blue in the face, but send her out on the porch with fresh lemonade while I do the dishes or surprise her with a ridiculous and completely sappy bouquet of flowers picked in the fields, and she heard me loud and clear.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“That’s what it was all about, wasn’t it? Mattering. Connecting. Resonating.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance

“A man could say “I love you” ‘til he was blue in the face, but send her out on the porch with fresh lemonade while I do the dishes or surprise her with a ridiculous and completely sappy bouquet of flowers picked in the fields, and she heard me loud and clear.”
― Lucy Score, The Last Second Chance