The Year of Second Chances Quotes

“love should connect you to people, not chain you to them.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“But I know that if you live your life for other people, in the end there will be nothing left of you.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“I hated it, too. Him not here. I would have traded anything of mine for one more hour, one more stuffy kiss on the cheek.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“... and he would look at me like I was the one slowly killing him instead of the one who was trying to save his life.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“After a minute, I scooted toward the space where Gabe had slept for ten years. Sometimes I imagined it still warm, as if he'd just gotten up to go to the bathroom.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“The reality was hard to swallow every day, and yet here I was, doing it. It wasn't brave, it just was.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances

“I hated being called brave more than anything. Brave implied that I had a choice in all of this. As if I had an option whether to lose my best friend or not, and death was the one I'd chosen.”
― Lara Avery, The Year of Second Chances