Love & Olives Quotes

“Kalamata, no one knows what they're doing. It's called life.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“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.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“But it's a good rule, Kalamata. Enjoy the moment, then carry the memories with you as a souvenir. It's my life mantra.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“It's Olive. She's my Atlantis.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“Book air is the best air.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“He said that there are two types of silence, the silence that is empty and the silence that is full, and it’s never hard to figure out which one you’re dealing with.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“But some people are worth second chances. Not all people. Just some people.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“Difficult is not the opposite of good”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“Sometimes moving forward is as simple as admitting what you already know.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“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.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“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.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“You never quite alone when you are in a bookstore. So many voices are jammed into one place, it is impossible to feel alone.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“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, Love & Olives

“How old are you anyway? Like, forty? What was it like to have a pet dinosaur? Did it ever bite you?”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“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.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“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.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“There’s an awkward like, Can we continue on our merry little way and pretend this never happened? and then there’s an awkward like, Do you happen to know of any nondormant volcanoes that I could throw myself into, because that seems to be my only remaining option?”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“I knew it was silly, but I cried when I said goodbye to the oregano and rosemary, and then wrote a note for the new owners with my dad's secret for growing plants: "PLANTS GROW FASTER IF YOU TALK TO THEM. THESE ONES LIKE KNOCK-KNOCK JOKES THE BEST.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“I still had a lot more finding to do. Not everything that had been lost had been found, but there was one thing I knew with absolute clarity. I'd keep looking.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“Trusting him was easy; it was me that was the problem.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“That is the problem with mental illness. It can be like looking into a foggy mirror. You no longer see clearly.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“Purrnest Hemingway. Not to be confused with her sister, Margaret Catwood.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“At dinnertime, Bapou brought us a covered plate of spanakopita and two honey-sweet kataïfi pastries made from shredded phyllo dough. He and Theo exchanged a few words, and then he patted my head softly. 'Beautiful. Welcome to Santorini.'
His voice was uncharacteristically subdued, and I saw the meaning in his eyes. I'm sorry your father is ill.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“It had probably been passed through my DNA, but I had a serious appetite for seafood. James always joked that there was nothing the sea could cook up that I wouldn't at least try. He was right. My dad and I had eaten fish every chance we got.”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives

“company at the end of the 1800s and was one of the first in all of Greece. It stopped operation during World War II, but the Greek navy put it back to use in the 1940s. You see how it is shaped?” I stood on my tiptoes to see over the top of the fence surrounding the structure. Along with the lighthouse tower, there was a full building, the back end shaped like a rectangle. “Today the lighthouse is run by remote, but back in the day, this is where the lighthouse keeper and his family lived. That’s who your dad met. Can’t you imagine him here as a little kid?” I sighed, resting my chin on the fence. Because yes, I really, really could. I’d seen photos of him as a child. He’d looked mischievous and energetic, and I could picture him scampering over these rocks, fearlessly approaching the edge, forming his early theories”
― Jenna Evans Welch, Love & Olives