Georgia Bockoven > Quotes

“If the destination was a broken heart, at least she would always have the memory of the journey.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer

“Why would I want to take a chance on being hurt agan?" She asked.

"Because you're not over me," he said. "Any more than I'm over you.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer

“from her soul. “Jeff?” She touched his face. “Jeff? Goddamn it, Jeff—don’t you dare die on me.” He squeezed her hand. Blood trickled from his ear and nose. “Go. . . .” He was going to die. She knew it the same way she knew she’d never been destined for true happiness. She was tainted, one of life’s misfits, not deserving, unworthy. There was a dark corner of her mind that reminded her of these things, a voice that warned her and kept her from being surprised when something bad happened. She was the dog raised alone on a chain in a backyard with a clear view of the dog next door, the one that had never known a boot in the ribs or a night in the rain. “All right. I’m going.” She reached for the handle; the door was jammed. She climbed through the window and dropped to the sand. She caught her breath as pain shot through her body. Everything hurt, her head, her lungs, her knees, even her breast where the seat belt had lain across her chest.”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Year that Everything Changed

“merriment, the ache in her side that”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“Parents try so hard to create moments their children will remember when they’re grown, and it rarely works out the way they expected.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“even death has a beginning, that it’s simply another of life’s journeys.”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“A company that can’t sell what it makes can’t stay in business. Eventually, inevitably, the marketplace will collapse and a global depression will hit that will make the last depression look like good times.” Kelly”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“Sometimes we’re so intent on getting exactly what we ask for that we miss the fact our prayers have been answered in another way.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“Their church was small, just her and Joe and God. They tithed by working to preserve the earth He’d created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert.” Carrie’s”
― Georgia Bockoven, Return to the Beach House: The Next Beach House Series Novel – A Contemporary Romance of Friendships, Family, and Seaside Love

“Without someone to set the pendulum’s swing, we wouldn’t know where to find the middle. None of us in the business of making changes gets everything we want, the extremists allow us to look like moderates and to go after changes that will make a difference.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“When you spend all your time looking back—” “You miss the opportunities ahead,”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“They write romantic songs about men who are wanderers. Women they crucify.” “She”
― Georgia Bockoven, Return to the Beach House: The Next Beach House Series Novel – A Contemporary Romance of Friendships, Family, and Seaside Love

“nothing is accomplished when people face each other shouting words that neither hear.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“There’s something inherently wrong in a relationship where the woman acts like a wife and the man acts like a boyfriend.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“Guilt is the fertilizer that feeds resentment.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Return to the Beach House: The Next Beach House Series Novel – A Contemporary Romance of Friendships, Family, and Seaside Love

“being alone is better”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“deserved a voice?”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House: Coming Home

“being alone is better than being with someone who is just filling space.”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“You are the hope and the promise for change. Without you, not only can’t we accomplish what needs to be done, we will lose everything we have gained.” As”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“If you take anything away from this class, I want it to be the belief that cooperative, mutually beneficial change is still possible between big business and environmental interests.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“FOREVER. Eighteen years is a long way from forever. He had so much life ahead of him. And it’s not as if he died in isolation. The dreams of all of the people who loved him died with him. His parents might learn to cope with his loss, but they will never recover.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Return to the Beach House: The Next Beach House Series Novel – A Contemporary Romance of Friendships, Family, and Seaside Love

“Another life lesson—learn when to hang on and when to yield. “I”
― Georgia Bockoven, Return to the Beach House: The Next Beach House Series Novel – A Contemporary Romance of Friendships, Family, and Seaside Love

“Love is a word used so freely that it’s lost a lot of its meaning,”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“When two sides to an issue become adversaries, cooperation is lost. The result is gridlock. Time and effort and energy are consumed that are desperately needed elsewhere.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“They tithed by working to preserve the earth He’d created and the animals that called it home. Only one word was in their gospel, and they relayed it by action, not preaching. That word was love.”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“The man had looked directly at the camera, making a connection she could feel through the years that separated them. He had his arm around the woman, and his smile was a beacon of happiness he plainly wanted the world to see. The woman had her arm around the man’s waist. She was gazing up at him, her joy so complete and intimate that being a witness almost seemed an invasion of her privacy.”
― Georgia Bockoven, Another Summer: A Beach House Novel

“People you loved were supposed to love each other.”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House

“In the end she’d decided it wasn’t God she questioned so much as His organized believers.”
― Georgia Bockoven, The Beach House