Quotes from Georgia Bockoven

If the destination was a broken heart, at least she would always have the memory of the journey.

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.

Parents try so hard to create moments their children will remember when they're grown, and it rarely works out the way they expected.

merriment, the ache in her side that

People you loved were supposed to love each other.

being alone is better

being alone is better than being with someone who is just filling space.

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.

nothing is accomplished when people face each other shouting words that neither hear.

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.

When you spend all your time looking back—" "You miss the opportunities ahead,

In the end she'd decided it wasn't God she questioned so much as His organized believers.

Guilt is the fertilizer that feeds resentment.

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.

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.

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

There's something inherently wrong in a relationship where the woman acts like a wife and the man acts like a boyfriend.

deserved a voice?

They write romantic songs about men who are wanderers. Women they crucify." "She

I thought of all the women on the Titanic who had refused dessert." Carrie's

Love is a word used so freely that it's lost a lot of its meaning,

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

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.

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