Jenna Evans Quotes

#1. We have a society that is going through life not talking about what's really hard about life and trying to pretend like everything's great when it's not. As a result, people feel more and more isolated.

Deborah Reber

#2. Turns out there's a reason they call it falling in love, because when it happens - really happens - that's exactly how it feels. There's no doing or trying, you just let go and hope that someone's going to be there to catch you.

Jenna Evans Welch

#3. You're the one I like. Maybe love.

Jenna Evans Welch

#4. She shook her head, then started fanning herself with her wallet. "Only in Italy.

Jenna Evans Welch

#5. I want to try for another record tomorrow. What was that last kind I had? With the chocolate chunks?"
"Stracciatella."
"I'm naming my first daughter after it."
"Lucky her.

Jenna Evans Welch

#6. Well, in that case, no. I'm not your father. But if you go with another definition, meaning 'a man who wants to be in your life and help raise you,' then yes. I am.

Jenna Evans Welch

#7. Sorry are you asleep?' 'Not anymore. I saw Howard's phone number and had a panic attack.

Jenna Evans Welch

#8. I needed to find The Dress. You know, the once-in-a-lifetime dress guaranteed to make anyone fall in love with you.

Jenna Evans Welch

#9. And yes. I'd totally just compared the only guy I'd ever felt this way about to a ham sandwich.

Jenna Evans Welch

#10. My voice was like weak tea.

Jenna Evans Welch

#11. Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no authentic Tantra without profound commitment, discipline, courage, and a sense of wild, foolhardy, fearless abandon.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. I reached reverently into the bag, then took a big bite of the cornetta. It was warm and melty and tasted like every perfect thing that could ever happen to you. Italian summers. First loves. Chocolate.

Jenna Evans Welch

#13. True intelligence operates silently. Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. He turned around and I felt the shards of my broken heart crumble to dust.

Jenna Evans Welch

#15. Sonia met my eyes in the mirror. 'You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they stay its for the same two things.' 'What?' 'Love and gelato.' 'Amen,' Howard said.

Jenna Evans Welch

#16. He took one look at Mimi and wilted. "Whoa. What did I miss?" "Shut up, Thomas." She turned and flounced away.

Jenna Evans Welch

#17. You may be slow to warm up, but once you do, you light up the whole room

Jenna Evans Welch

#18. Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

Gene Stratton-Porter

#19. I'm not a worrier. I like sleeping.

Marco Pierre White

#20. So... Italian gelato. Take the deliciousness of a regular ice-cream cone, times it by a million, then sprinkle it with crushed-up unicorn horns.

Jenna Evans Welch

#21. If you speak evil, you will soon be worse spoken of.

Hesiod

#22. It wasn't a little kiss, Not like your first peck or like the time you made out with your junior high boyfriend behind the movie theater. It was throw-your-arms-around-his-neck, bury-your-fingers-in-his-hair, why-haven't-we-done-this-before kissing

Jenna Evans Welch

#23. Before I could catch it, my heart slammed straight down to my feet, leaving me with a massive hole in my chest. It was amazing how I could just be going along, doing okay, and then suddenly-wham-I missed her so much even my fingernails hurt.

Jenna Evans Welch

#24. Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

Chuck D

#25. Hey, I just thought of something."
"What?"
"When we're together, we make one whole Italian.

Jenna Evans Welch

#26. I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.

Laura Bell Bundy

#27. McDonald's has been extraordinary at site selection; it was a pioneer in studying the best places for retail locations. One of the things it did is study very carefully where sprawl was headed.

Eric Schlosser

#28. You know, people come to Italy for all sorts of reasons, but when they sat, it's for the same two things."
"What?"
"Love and gelato.

Jenna Evans Welch

#29. I may not be six four but I can certainly act six four.

Marshall Thornton

#30. [She was] like an exclamation mark in human form.

Jenna Evans Welch

#31. Failure is nothing more than learning how to win.

Robin S. Sharma

#32. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, I really like you. A lot. But if you don't feel the same way about me, it's okay. Because you're really important to me, and I hope we can still be friends.

Jenna Evans Welch

#33. Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

George Washington

#34. What I really want is someone who will wake me up early so I don't miss a sunrise.

Jenna Evans Welch

#35. It is precisely because our present life is so inseparably linked with desire that we must make use of desire's tremendous energy if we wish to transform our life into something transcendental.

Thubten Yeshe