“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
“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
“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
“that was the thing about luck, its laws were those of scarcity.”
— Lily Gardner
“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
“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