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People mess up and make mistakes all the time. Everyone deserves a second chance right? - Brandon
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Molly McAdams (Taking Chances (Taking Chances, #1))
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if they say they're sorry, she should give them a second chance. Not a third or a fourth... but you told her that everyone deserves a second chance.
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Emma Chase (Tangled (Tangled, #1))
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I have always thought everyone deserves a second chance. We are each given only one life. We cannot get another one. We must live with the mistakes we have made.
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Cassandra Clare (Chain of Thorns (The Last Hours, #3))
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Brother Zachariah had no reason to support the Lightwoods, but everyone deserved a second chance if they wanted that chance enough.
And one of Robert Lightwood’s ancestors had been a woman called Cecily Herondale.
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Cassandra Clare (Son of the Dawn (Ghosts of the Shadow Market, #1))
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Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don't often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we're likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.
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Binnie Kirshenbaum (The Scenic Route)
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Everyone deserves a second chance,” Nana said when we were alone. “Even bad people?” I asked. “Everyone you know is both good and bad, it’s part of being human.
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Alice Feeney (Daisy Darker)
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Seeing what she has suffered has made me realize that everyone deserves a second chance, especially if someone out there is willing to give them one, in spite of what they carry with them.
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Jojo Moyes (The Ship of Brides)
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Everyone deserves love. And everyone deserves a chance, and then a second chance.
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Dr James R Doty
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Because he deserves a second chance,” Love said. “Everyone does. My enchantress transformed the outer man to transform the inner. His suffering will teach him kindness and compassion. He’ll find his heart again.
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Jennifer Donnelly (Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book)
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Her kiss is hungry, as if long deprived. As if they didn’t already spend the morning doing just exactly this, making up for the lost time they were apart. Triton’s trident, I could do this all day. Then he catches himself. No, I couldn’t. Not without wanting more. Which is why we need to stop.
Instead, he entwines his hands in her hair, and she teases his lips with her tongue, trying to get him to fully open his mouth to her. He gladly complies. Her fingers sneak their way under his shirt, up his stomach, sending a trail of fire to his chest.
He is about to lose his shirt altogether. Until Antonis’s voice booms from the doorway. “Extract yourself from Prince Galen, Emma,” he says. “You two are not mated. This behavior is inappropriate for any Syrena, let alone a Royal.”
Emma’s eyes go round as sand dollars. He can tell she’s not sure what to think about her grandfather telling her what to do. Or maybe she’s caught off guard that he called her a Royal. Either way, like most people, Emma decides to obey. Galen does, too. They stand up side by side, not daring to be close enough to touch. They behold King Antonis in a polka-dot bathrobe, and though he’s the one who looks silly, they are the ones who look shamed.
Galen feels like a fingerling again. “I apologize, Highness,” he says. It seems like all he does lately is apologize to the Poseidon king. “It was my fault.”
Antonis gives him a reproving look. “I like you, young prince. But you well know the law. Do not disappoint me, Galen. My granddaughter is deserving of a proper mating ceremony.”
Galen can’t meet his eyes. He’s right. I shouldn’t be flirting with temptation like this. With the Archives on their way-or possibly here already-there is a distant but small chance that he and Emma can still live within the confines of the law. That they can still live as mates under the Syrena tradition. And he almost just blew it. What if it had gone too far? Then his mating with Emma would forever be blemished by breaking the law. “It won’t happen again, Highness.” Not until we’re mated, anyway.
“Um. Did you just promise not to kiss me ever again?” Emma whispers.
“Can we talk about this later? The Archives are obviously here, angelfish.”
She’s on the verge of a fit, he can tell. “He’s just looking out for us,” Galen says quickly. “I agree, we need to respect the law-“
At this her fit subsides as if it was never there. She smiles wide at him. He can’t decide if it’s genuine, or if it’s the kind of smile she gives him when he’ll pay for something later. “Okay, Galen.”
“Galen, Emma,” Nalia calls from the dining room, saving him from making a fool of himself. “Everyone is here.”
Emma gives him a look that clearly says, “We’re so not done with this conversation.” Then she turns and walks away. Galen takes a second to regain a little bit of composure-which kissing Emma tends to steal from him. Then there’s the mortification of being interrupted by-Get it together, idiot.
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Anna Banks (Of Triton (The Syrena Legacy, #2))
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Shelton pushed Ben lightly. “Remember when you couldn’t flare without losing your temper? So Hi kicked you from behind to get you mad, and you threw him in the ocean?”
Ben snorted. “He deserved it.”
“I was providing a service,” Hi protested. “I recall Tory once trying to eat a mouse.”
I pinched my nose. “Ugh, don’t remind me.”
Ella giggled. “One time Cole lost his flare while carrying a boulder. It pinned his leg for an hour.”
Then everyone had a story. Our funeral became a wake.
The mood lifted as we swapped flare stories. It was cathartic. A way to say good-bye.
I caught Ben smiling at me. “I remember when Tory sniffed that mound of bird crap in the old lighthouse. I thought she’d vomit on the spot.”
Chance laughed. “I knew she was too clever. Always with a trick up her sleeve.”
The boys glanced at each other. Their smiles faded.
Something passed between them.
Abruptly, both looked at me.
I could see a question in their eyes. A resolve to see something through.
They talked. Oh God, they talked about me.
They’re going to make me choose.
In a flash of dread, I realized I could delay this no longer.
With another jolt, I realized I didn’t need to.
There was no point putting it off.
There was also no decision to make.
My eyes met a dark, intense pair staring back earnestly. Longingly. Fearfully.
I smiled. Even as my heart pounded.
Before anyone spoke, I stepped forward, legs shaking so badly I worried I might fall.
But my second foot successfully followed the first.
I walked over to Ben’s side.
Slipped my hand inside his.
Squeezed for dear life.
Ben’s eyes widened. He gasped quietly, his chest rising and falling.
I met his startled gaze. Smiled through my blushes.
A goofy smile split Ben’s face, one I’d never seen before. His fingers crushed mine.
No decision to make.
Tearing my eyes from Ben, I looked at Chance, found him watching me with a glum expression. Then he sighed, a wry smile twisting his lips.
Chance nodded slightly.
Not one word spoken. Volumes exchanged.
The silence stretched, like a living breathing force.
Finally, Hi cleared his throat. “Um.”
My face burned scarlet as I remembered our audience. Ella was gaping at me, a delighted grin on her face. Shelton looked like he might turn and run. Hi was rubbing the back of his neck, his face twisted in an uncomfortable grimace.
Still no one said a word.
This was the most painful moment of my life.
“So . . .” Hi drummed his thighs, eyes fixed to the pavement. “Right. A lot just happened there. Weirdly without anyone talking, but, um, yeah.
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Kathy Reichs (Terminal (Virals, #5))
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I licked my dry lips, glancing around at everyone staring at us. Finally I looked up into Cole’s handsome face. “I’m here because I love you, and I need to ask you something.” I took a deep breath. It was time to go big.
I lowered myself to one knee.
Cole’s eyes grew round and I heard a few female gasps behind him. “Shannon, what—”
“Cole Walker, I once told you in fear that you were nothing, but there has never been a day of your life that that was true and there has never been a day I’ve ever really thought that. You’ve been extraordinary to me since we were fifteen.” I smiled shakily, feeling vulnerable and frightened but hopeful too as he stared down at me with growing tenderness in his expression. “Apart from Logan I’ve never had a real family. The kind you can count on through everything. The kind that gives you second, third, fourth chances because the other option is no option at all. Because they love you and they’re there for you. Unconditionally. Logan was the only one who ever gave me that. Until you. You’re my family, Cole. I want you to be my family forever.” I laughed hoarsely. “I don’t have a ring or anything. I just have me. And I know I’m not perfect and I know you deserve perfect . . . but I love you more than anyone else in this world and I promise you I’ll never let you forget that again.” My heart slowed its rapid beating as a sense of calm came over me. A sense of rightness. It was as if I’d found the balance I’d been missing ever since I got in that car and left Cole behind on that stoop on Scotland Street all those years ago. “It’s always been you, and I always want it to be . . . Marry me, Cole.
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Samantha Young (Echoes of Scotland Street (On Dublin Street, #5))
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Apparently, Stoneville meant to gain his amusement solely from watching Jackson bait Celia.
Jackson wasn’t entirely sure why, but neither did he care. He cared only about making sure he shot well enough to beat Celia’s three suitors, to prevent them from gaining the kiss.
So you can gain it yourself.
He scowled as they halted in their new spot to reload. Nonsense. But if he did happen to win it, he would treat her like the lady she was. Devonmont was just the kind of joking fellow to be impudent with her in front of everyone. Lyons had already had a taste of her lips, so he might very well think to make his second taste more intimate. And Basto, who already had a fondness for holding her hand, confound the insolent devil-
Jackson swore under his breath. He was acting like some jealous idiot. All right, so he was jealous, but this wasn’t about that. He merely wanted to keep Celia from making an enormous mistake.
When she’d tried to get out of shooting, Jackson had realized she was serious about choosing one of these idiots as a husband. Clearly, she thought if she pretended to be some milk-and-water miss, it would help her chances.
So he’d made sure she didn’t do any such thing. If they were worthy of her, they had to be worthy of the real her, not the pretend one she presented. Personally, he thought them all fools for not seeing she was putting on an act.
And couldn’t she see that a marriage built on such deceptions would fail?
No, she was too blinded by her determination to prove her grandmother wrong about her. Well, he couldn’t let her stumble into some idiotic engagement with gentlemen who didn’t deserve her. Especially not after what he’d learned about them.
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Sabrina Jeffries (A Lady Never Surrenders (Hellions of Halstead Hall, #5))
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Everyone deserves a second chance to be loved: fearlessly.
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Everyone deserves a second chance.
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Emery Rose Andrews (Until August (Love and Chaos, #3))
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I guess if I had to sum it up in one sentence, I’d say it’s a book about hope and redemption, yes. That everyone deserves a second chance, no matter what they’ve done.
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Lucinda Berry (A Welcome Reunion)
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Please don't feel sad for Sadie,” I implored the crowd. "she is a very happy dog and not in any pain. Hers is a story of pure love and second chances.” Suddenly a new and striking thought occurred to me, and I was moved to share it with our audience. “Sadie may not be able to walk right vow. but everybody has at least one problem or one thing wrong with them. Everyone deserves a second chance. Sadie can teach people all about acceptance, and focusing on what you can do, not what you can’t.
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Joal Derse Dauer (Saving Sadie: How a Dog That No One Wanted Inspired the World)
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Working in mental health support has made me realize that everyone wears a mask and everyone deserves a second chance because it's our first time at life.
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Cletus Rachael
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Doesn't everyone deserve their own version of a happily-ever-after?
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Jill Shalvis (Second Chance Summer (Cedar Ridge, #1))
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Pain wrung his heart. So, then, it was to be the same in death as it had always been in life. He concealed the bitter ache, pretending to laugh at something Chilcot was going on about. It was inevitable that during all those years they were growing up, people had compared him and Charles with each other. After all, they'd both been so close in age, so similar in looks and build. But in the eyes of those adults around them — adults who behaved as though neither child had ears nor feelings — Charles had been the golden boy — the Beloved One. Gareth's carefree, devil-may-care nature had never stood a chance against Charles's serious-minded ambition, his dogged pursuit of perfection at whatever he did. It was Charles who had the keener wit, the better brain, the more serious mind. It was Charles who'd make a magnificent MP or glittering ambassador in some faraway post, Charles who was a credit to his family, Charles, Charles, Charles — while he, Gareth ... well, God and the devil only knew what would become of poor Gareth. Charles had never been one to gloat or rub it in. Indeed, he'd resented the inevitable comparisons far more than Gareth, who laughingly pretended to accept them and then did his best to live down to what people expected of him. And why not? He had nothing to prove, no expectations to aspire to. Besides, he hadn't envied Charles. Not really. While Charles had been groomed to succeed to the dukedom should Lucien die without issue, he, Gareth, had been having the time of his life — running wild over Berkshire, over Eton, and most recently, over Oxford. Never in his twenty-three years, had he allowed himself to feel any envy or resentment toward his perfect, incomparable older brother. Until now — when he found himself wanting the one thing Charles had owned that he himself did not have: the love of Juliet Paige. He looked at her now, standing off by herself with her head bent over Charlotte as she tried to soothe her. The child was screaming loudly enough to make the dead throw off their tombstones and rise up in protest, but her mother remained calm, holding the little girl against her bosom and patting her back. Gareth watched them, feeling excluded. Charles's bride. Charles's daughter. God help me. He knew he was staring at them with the desperation of one confined to hell and looking wistfully toward heaven. He thought of his wife's face when he'd taken Charles's ring off and put it on her other finger, the guilty gratitude in her eyes at this noble act of generosity that had cost him so little but had obviously meant so much to her. What could he do to deserve such a look of unabashed worship again? Why, she was looking at me as she must have looked at Charles. She still loved his brother. Everyone had loved his brother. He could only wonder what it might take to make her love him. But it's not me she wants. It's him. 'Sdeath. I could never compete with Charles when he was alive. How can I compete with him now? Lucien's cold judgment of the previous morning rang in his head: You are lazy, feckless, dissolute, useless. He took a deep breath, and stared up through the great stained glass windows. You are an embarrassment to this family — and especially to me. He was second-best. Second choice. Perry
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Danelle Harmon (The Wild One (The de Montforte Brothers, #1))
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I don’t care what kind of mistakes you’ve got in your past. We’ve all made them and everyone deserves a second chance.
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Lucinda Berry (Missing Parts)
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People deserved second chances if they were genuine in their desire to make amends. Nothing could be done to change the past, but everyone knew forgiveness worked both ways. To get it, she had to give it.
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Kay Stockham (With This Man (Small Town Scandals #3))
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Sometimes we have to accept the bad to get back to the good. Some things, some people, deserve a second chance. Not everyone, or everything, but some.
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Maureen Leurck (Cicada Summer)
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That was the millisecond I realized the power of forgiveness, that everyone deserved a second chance. Love and forgiveness.
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C.G. Cooper (Legacy (The Chronicles of Benjamin Dragon, #2))
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I need your help,' he said.
I was taken aback. 'What for?'
'Five hundred dollars to clean up my room.'
I laughed. 'You're paying me to do my job?'
'And the CCTVs too.'
I started to wonder if he was a famous celebrity or politician. If he was, then five hundred dollars was pocket money to him. But I stayed silent, already thinking about what I could do with so much extra money. My prawn noodles arrived and I sipped my tea.
'Why should I help you?'
Wei Xiong looked out towards the sea. 'Because everyone deserves a second chance.
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Wan Phing Lim (Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories)
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Outside, the light blue sedan had disappeared, but the shadow of the two figures in the car lingered in my mind. I clicked open the CCTV screen by my computer and rewound the footage. The camera along the hallway showed the big man entering Room 262, the same room I'd given...
Twenty minutes later he was being half shuffled, half dragged through the door and down the corridor, seemingly fast asleep and wedged between...
The screen said: ERASE? YES or NO. I clicked YES, because everyone deserves a second chance.
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Wan Phing Lim (Two Figures in a Car and Other Stories)
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He liked to think of himself as the kind of person who would always do the right thing, even when it hurt. Jeff worked hard. He came up from nothing, made a life for himself, found a slice of the American dream. Yet he made a conscious effort not to think less of the folks who couldn’t do that. It went beyond putting himself into another person’s shoes. He wanted to believe that everyone deserved a little grace, a second chance. The world didn’t work so well without that.
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Rebecca Renner (Gator Country: Deception, Danger, and Alligators in the Everglades)
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Everyone deserves a second chance. Not everyone is willing to take that first step.
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A.T. Veatch (City of Thicket (The Thicket Trilogy Book 1))
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If a man ever hits you, it's over. That's what my mammy told me, and it was good advice. Not that it applied to me either, if you know what I mean. But good advice nonetheless. No second chances. No matter how much he apologises, the truth is it's only more likely - even inevitable - that it will happen again. Once the line has been crossed, it only becomes easier to cross it the next time. And I remember saying to my mammy that everyone deserves a chance at redemption, and that maybe unique circumstances can contrive to make a good man lose control. She asked me this: if it was a twenty-stone, six-foot biker with five mates that he was angry with, would he lose control then?
So it's sad, because you don't want it to be over, and you think it doesn't have to be. But it is, and it does. It's like he's died or he's dumped you, or cheated on you: turned out not to be the person you thought he was.
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Chris Brookmyre (Black Widow)
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Everyone deserves a second chance. The question is what will you do with it.
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Ben Philippe (Charming as a Verb)
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Maggie has always been the girl for you since we were little, and that is a fact. She's your epic love, man. Not many people get that one person that they're meant to be with. Even Jeremy knew how you felt about her. Any idiot could tell just by the way you looked at her. The way you still look at her. Everyone deserves a second chance. Maggie definitely does.
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Kelly Mooney (Stay)
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I wasn’t sure I’d heard him right and I started to shake my head, but Matty piped up. “It’s a second chance,” he said matter-of-factly. “Papa says everyone deserves a second chance.” “Memphis,
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Sloane Kennedy (Vengeance (The Protectors, #5))
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I just think that no good can come from me leaving her. We’d both just be alone then, but this way, if we move, it can be a fresh start for us.’ ‘I think it’s worth a try.’ ‘You do? You don’t think I’m being stupid.’ ‘No, of course not. You’re doing what you think is best for your relationship.’ ‘I just keep thinking about all the people who came to our wedding day. Imagine having to tell them that the vows they witnessed were all for nothing. I don’t want them to feel bad, and I certainly don’t want them to feel bad for me. I’d rather they just didn’t know, and maybe they don’t have to. And everyone deserves a second chance.’ ‘As long as you’re doing it for the right reasons. Stay with her because you love her, not because you’re embarrassed to be single again.
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Daniel Hurst (The Doctor’s Wife (The Doctor's Wife, #1))