The Second Chance Store Quotes

“It wasn’t okay to not be okay, that was the very definition of not-okayness. Please, a smaller voice deeper within her would whisper in the scream’s wake. Don’t tell me this is normal. Don’t leave me here.”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“a whole generation was more concerned with reassuring each other it was fine to stay in their mutual pits of gloom than with helping each other climb out of them.”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“This was torture. Why did people have to go around being honest with each other? Why couldn’t everyone accept that polite society was built on a grand tradition of lies and evasion, of reading between the lines, beating about the bush and never having to hear the damning words out loud? How did you tell a person the truth to their face without immediately bursting into flames?”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“Not for the first time, Gwen marvelled at some people’s determination to seek out uncomfortable conversations while others, the normal ones, fled from them as if from rampaging dinosaurs. Was it a class thing? A patriarchal thing? A product of too much structured reality TV, everyone incessantly taking each other aside in wine bars for words?”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“If you run, you might miss it anyway. But if you don’t run, you still have your dignity,”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“If charity shops remind you of death then that’s only because they’re so full of life.”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“Perhaps friendship in your twenties was like storing nuts for winter. You spend as much time as you can frantically filling the pantry, so you have enough to live on in your thirties once stocks start to dwindle.”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved

“If only one could clear out one’s mind and heart as ruthlessly as one did one’s wardrobe. BARBARA PYM,”
― Lauren Bravo, Preloved