Andrea Lochen Quotes

#1. What made Olive the saddest about the Gardners was that everyone wanted to be enshrined in someone's memory. It was the only way of living on after death, really: in the minds of loved ones. Memories were the only things that made aging bearable, a way of reverting to better, simpler days.

Andrea Lochen

#2. It's like I'm trying to keep the bad away with one hand while holding on to the good with the other, and it just doesn't work. It's stupid. I need both hands. So I guess I just have to spread out my arms and accept the bad with the good.

Andrea Lochen

#3. Love had still seemed like such a paltry thing in the face of all my doubts then, much the way it felt now. David had worries my love couldn't touch, fears my love couldn't easily dispel. My love seemed like a well-worn blanket instead of the titanium shield I needed.

Andrea Lochen

#4. I can promise you that I could be sent back to live this year a hundred times, and I would always choose you. I would always. Choose. You.

Andrea Lochen

#5. She felt empty yet full, spent yet bursting with energy, drowsy yet wide awake. She felt love.

Andrea Lochen

#6. I see you, and I suddenly forget why I was keeping score. That's why I stayed away, I guess. It was a last-ditch effort to protect myself. Because you totally, utterly undo me.

Andrea Lochen

#7. [A dog is] a bundle of pure love, gift-wrapped in fur.

Andrea Lochen

#8. It's not called 'falling in love' for no reason. It's scary! It's like jumping out of a plane with no parachute. Or bungee-jumping without your cord attached. Or hang-gliding with only one wing.

Andrea Lochen