Lily Gardner > Quotes

“about Tommy, you went through your whole life craving these little pockets of time and missing them for more time than you had them.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“There were men in their fifties, men who take a stab at fitness, men who try. They may not look young, but they still look viable. Lammers wasn't one of those. Lammers was one of those crack-in-the-ass guys ten months pregnant with a beer baby.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“Bad news. If you can see it coming, you brace yourself; you weigh the outcome. But there's always that niggling voice, that voice of hope whispering, 'Maybe it's good news.' Whether you can admit it or not, that little whisper is a potent thing.”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind

“It's always easy to look back and see where you could've played the hand differently once all the cards are on the table.”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind

“That was the thing about luck: its laws were those of scarcity.”
― Lily Gardner, A Bitch Called Hope

“We're all swimmers in the river of time...Just you wait, sister. Spending your days anticipating when you'll see your lover, anticipating your next paycheck, next party, next episode of blah blah blah—and poof! You're thirty-nine and wondering where the hell the time went.”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind

“The only way to wrest yourself from Bad Luck's grip is to act. Not randomly, but with logical purpose. And if you were wrong, you backed up and re- A person can't sit on their ass and wait for Good Luck to walk by.reasoned. Chance still overrode your efforts, but what other way did you have to combat chaos?”
― Lily Gardner, Betting Blind