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41 " That’s the truth about making mistakes, about making the wrong choices. You live with them, and if you’re lucky you get enough perspective to see where you went astray. You figure out what you can do to repair the damage, and you figure out how to do better going forward. "
― Kate Clayborn , Luck of the Draw (Chance of a Lifetime #2)
42 " We all said things we can’t take back, and nothing’s ever been the same. So I really try to—I keep the peace with people. I don’t like the way it makes me feel, to fight. "
― Kate Clayborn , Love Lettering
43 " I’d never traveled outside the state of Ohio, and even inside of Ohio I’d only really ever left home to visit Cincinnati, which is where my dad’s parents lived. "
44 " Both trips seemed overwhelming, but in pictures D.C. seemed mostly comprised of clean, white, official-looking buildings surrounded by evenly cut, extremely green grass, and since I grew up in the suburbs, evenly cut, extremely green grass was basically my understanding of nature in general. "
45 " But in pictures—not to mention in TV shows and movies—New York seemed huge, unpredictable, gray and crowded and noisy and mismatching. There was Central Park, sure, but in the aerial photographs our social studies teacher showed us, even that seemed overwhelming—thick-topped trees hiding what, I didn’t know, but probably not a bunch of suburban-looking grass, and all of it surrounded by that gray maze of buildings. "
46 " When I’d come home and told my parents, neither of them seemed to register the wobble in my voice, instead almost immediately—as was their tradition—taking up diametrically opposed positions on the whole thing. "
47 " A few months later, I’d taken my seat on that spring day with a sketchpad clutched to my chest and two full bottles of Pepto-Bismol in my backpack, remembering my dad’s advice to “stay tough” and my mom’s to keep all my money in the flat fanny pack she’d bought me to wear beneath my pants. "
48 " Bottom’s ass’s head peeking from the eye, one of his long ears slightly bent. "
49 " The one where for once, they’d been on the same side. "
50 " The warmth I feel — it's not from the drink. It's from this evening, these games, this moment. This understanding, or at least the attempt at it. "
51 " best-looking falafel I’ve ever seen, garlicky sautéed carrots, a tomato-and-cucumber salad that I plan to mix with the hummus that’s sitting right beside it. "
52 " My mom’s an actress,” I say, distracting myself now. “Or, she was an actress, when she was young. She has a flair for the dramatic.” Understatement. If my mother were here, she’d have called an ambulance—big voiced, urgent. She’d have been doing a very beautiful brow-wrinkle while waiting for it to arrive. She would have enfolded Alex in a perfectly posed hug, one that ensured the skin of her arms didn’t smoosh in an unflattering way. "
― Kate Clayborn , Best of Luck (Chance of a Lifetime, #3)
53 " Despite my distraction, though, this is a pretty good showing for me at a cocktail party. I’ve done some champion mingling, if I do say so myself. But the introvert in me is starting to cry out in distress, or maybe that’s just my feet in these shoes. "
― Kate Clayborn , Beginner's Luck (Chance of a Lifetime, #1)
54 " no reason to feel sorry for me, either. I’m not "
55 " Stochastically. "
56 " But if there were lean times,” he says. “You have an LLC, or something? Do you pay yourself a salary out of that? "
57 " I never really knew what people meant before when they said someone was “pushing their buttons.” Right now, I am made of buttons. "
58 " If I did, I would say that last week I watched every video you’ve got on your website so I could hear the sound of your voice again. I would say that a woman stood next to me on the subway and I think she used the same shampoo as you, and I could hardly breathe for how much I missed you. "