Top 80 Jenna Evans Welch Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “My mom once told me that it’s difficult for kids to recognize their parents as anything but supporting cast members in their own feature films, and here it was true. I’d been so wrapped up in my own story with my father that I hadn’t stopped to think about what his story was.”

— Jenna Evans Welch

52. “But some people are worth second chances. Not all people. Just some people.”

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53. “You never quite alone when you are in a bookstore. So many voices are jammed into one place, it is impossible to feel alone.”

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54. “You’re going to be fine. You’re going to make it. Your life will go on, and it’s going to be great.”

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55. “I’d tried a few times, but I found out pretty quickly that most people don’t actually want to know about the hard things you’ve been through. They just want to look like they care and then move on to the next subject as quickly as possible.”

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56. “I had nutella on my face and my first real love sprawled next to me and any minute the stars were going to sink back into the sky in preparation for a new day, and for the first time in a long time, I couldn’t wait for what that day would bring. and that was something.”

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57. “People come to Italy for many things, but they stay for only two. Love and gelato.”

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58. “Florence is the perfect place to fall in love, which means it’s also the worst place to be heartbroken.”

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59. “One day with Hadley was easily worth a lifetime in Italy.”

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60. “I hadn’t found the map. I’d been gifted the map. And that was a big difference, wasn’t it? A tiny window opened up in my chest. Not all the way, but enough to let some sunlight in.”

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61. “Simply being alive is a long shot. And art isn’t your future; it’s your today. It’s in the way you do everything.”

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62. “The city enchants you, then brings you right back down to reality. I’ve never been anyplace that I want to capture so much. I spend a lot of time photographing things that seem uniquely Italian – laundry hanging in the alleyway, red geraniums planted in old tomato- sauce cans – but mostly I try to capture the people. Italians are so expressive: you never have to guess what they’re feeling.”

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63. “I’m sort of American, sort of Italian. When I’m in Italy, I feel too American and when I’m in the states, I feel too Italian.”

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64. “He pointed up at the ceiling. “They play the Beatles all day every day, which means I get two of my favorite things together. Pizza and Paul McCartney.”

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65. “When you get to be my age, you realize that age has nothing to do with what you can accomplish – if you’ve go it, you’ve go it. Why wait until you grow up? And then once you’re all grown-up, why stop? Or at least that’s my motto.”

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66. “How old are you anyway? Like, forty? What was it like to have a pet dinosaur? Did it ever bite you?”

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67. “I’m going because it feels scarier not to.”

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68. “There’s an order here that doesn’t exist in real life, and I find it strangely comforting. Maybe that’s the beauty of death. Nothing is a mess anymore. Everything is sealed up and final.”

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69. “What was there to worry about? It’s not like I was an active aquaphobic carrying nine years of emotional baggage onto a boat held together by duct tape.”

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70. “You don’t need anyone, unless you want them.”

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71. “Trusting him was easy; it was me that was the problem.”

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72. “Maybe that was just part of the Italian experience. “Come to Italy! Fall in love! Watch everything blow up in your face!” You could probably read about it on travel websites.”

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73. “I specialize in late-night kitchen disasters.”

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74. “But I didn’t finish because he dived on me and we kissed. Like really, really kissed. And it turns out I’d been waiting absolutely my entire life to be kissed by Lorenzo Ferrara in an American cemetery in the middle of Italy.”

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75. “I looked back toward the door. Creepy staircase or overly friendly international teenagers? I guess I’d take my chances with Ren.”

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76. “Do you know what I love the most about this place? You are never quite alone when you are in a bookstore. So many voices are jammed into one place, it is impossible to feel alone.”

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77. “Families splitting are like earthquakes. Yes, they are happening every day all over the world, but that doesn’t make them any less shocking when they happen to you.”

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78. “I mean hope as in stillness, those moments when you just know things are going to work out.”

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79. “That is the problem with mental illness. It can be like looking into a foggy mirror. You no longer see clearly.”

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80. “I was so in love it hurt.”

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81. “What does making money have to do with art? You don’t make art to make money. And you don’t make it because it’s convenient. You do it because it’s what you’re here to do, and if you don’t do it, you are running from yourself.”

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82. “Heartache came in all sorts of flavors.”

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83. “Purrnest Hemingway. Not to be confused with her sister, Margaret Catwood.”

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84. “Book air is the best air.”

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