{"quotes":[{"text":"Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting.~Piper - 'Breathe Me.","author":"Alexia Purdy","tags":["contemporary-romance","literary-fiction","love","love-hurts","second-chances"],"id":10948,"author_id":"Alexia+Purdy"},{"text":"What I realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.","author":"Julia Green","tags":["forgiveness","hope","life","love","second-chances"],"id":13629,"author_id":"Julia+Green"},{"text":"I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.","author":"Melody Carlson","tags":["broken","damaged","defeated","fixing-things","god-can-repair-you","hurt","saving-things","second-chances"],"id":18152,"author_id":"Melody+Carlson"},{"text":"To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.","author":"Holly Elissa Bruno","tags":["education","second-chances","self-love","teachers"],"id":18652,"author_id":"Holly+Elissa+Bruno"},{"text":"Or else I may do something I’m pretty sure you’ll hate me for in the mornin’.” The low huskiness of his voice washed over her like a heated caress, sending shivers down her spine, and obliterating whatever defenses she’d manage to build against him.","author":"J.M. Stewart","tags":["contemporary-romance","second-chances"],"id":26363,"author_id":"J.M.+Stewart"},{"text":"That’s the thing about life. You don’t always get a second chance and there are no guarantees. Love is the only thing that really matters.","author":"Linda Becker","tags":["guarantees","life-philosophy","love","second-chances"],"id":28178,"author_id":"Linda+Becker"},{"text":"You can do the impossible, because you have been through the unthinkable.","author":"Christina Rasmussen","tags":["grief","grief-and-loss","love-hurts","new-beginnings","second-chances","tragedy"],"id":30238,"author_id":"Christina+Rasmussen"},{"text":"Come. There is a way to be good again...","author":"Khaled Hosseini","tags":["forgiveness","second-chances"],"id":33800,"author_id":"Khaled+Hosseini"},{"text":"Find comfort in little things and joy in unexpected moments.","author":"Holly Elissa Bruno","tags":["joy","living-in-the-present","second-chances"],"id":41908,"author_id":"Holly+Elissa+Bruno"},{"text":"Everyone has a past. I have mine, you have yours, and we have ours. No matter what it takes, I will prove to you that our past, no matter how hurtful, didn't ruin the future we could have. Only we can either make that happen or run from it. It's our decision this time, Amy. There are no outside influences that can push us one way or the other. There's only you and me and what could be.","author":"Melissa Foster","tags":["love","past","seaside-secrets","second-chances"],"id":67356,"author_id":"Melissa+Foster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":83,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}