{"id":488,"date":"2015-11-10T01:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-11-10T17:50:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T17:50:24","slug":"first-lines-take-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissagorzelanczyk.com\/blog\/first-lines-take-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"First Lines: Take a Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Take-a-chance\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This post is part of my series: First Lines<\/a>, where I’ve\u00a0shared some of my favorite quotes from Arrows<\/em>, my debut young adult novel forthcoming from Delacorte Press on January 26, 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Take a chance.<\/em><\/p>\n

You’ve probably heard the phrase more than once in your lifetime.<\/p>\n

Possibly it was shared as a flippant FYI, easy words that left you stammering to guess the pros and cons of whatever risk you were considering.<\/p>\n

And risk can be scary. In fact, I’ll venture that risk feels a little like being sent to Earth as a human and leaving all you know behind, like Aaryn, one of the main characters in my book.<\/p>\n

With\u00a0chance, there is uncertainty.<\/p>\n

There is the thought that things might not work out. That you’ll fail. That you’ll be rejected.<\/p>\n

And then you might hurt.<\/p>\n