Last Chance Quotes

“What was sad was knowing she was most likely the last reminder that there might never be another go. We might still communicate, might still meet for coffee, but the dream was gone, the hand across the table was gone, the square itself was gone.”
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

“I looked at her moonskin face her pansy eyes and her cobweb hair and I knew I would go on giving her one last chance for ever.”
― Glenda Millard, A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

“I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing -- like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies -- it's better to live with that bad thing than trying to change it. Because what if you get to chance to change it and you mess up? What if it's your last chance?”
― Carol Goodman

“Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!”
― Gabrielle Dubois

“She wished to say everything; she was afraid he might die before she had done so.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“You don't want to ride? Go that way."
The exit gate, on the far end of the platform, looks like the golden gates of heaven. Or if there's no heaven, then the doorway of a bookstore. I eye it longingly.”
― Julie Abe, The Charmed List

“In the distance, Amanda heard the sirens. Just a little bit longer. She didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was scared of dying before she had the chance to tell Ryker goodbye. In their capable hands, though, surely they could keep her alive long enough for him to return. They had to.”
― Rose Wynters, My Wolf Fighter

“But the sense that it was his last chance, that he loved her and had lost her, that she would think him a fool whatever he should say, suddenly gave him a lash and added a deep vibration to his low voice.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Understanding the Holocaust is our chance, perhaps our last one, to preserve humanity.”
― Timothy Snyder, Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning