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Rules are rules, yet still
trumped always by kindness and human decency. -- Sarah Ockler
This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful. -- Sarah Ockler
According to the crazy, bug-eating guys on those survival shows, human beings are the most adaptable creatures on earth- we can get used to just about anything. Doesn't mean it's okay. I mean, who wants to get used to eating grubs and collecting maple leaves for toiler paper? No thanks. -- Sarah Ockler
They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched. -- Sarah Ockler
Heartless, someone called me the other day. A heartless bitch.
But that's where I get stuck.
If I'm so heartless, what's this bruised thing in my chest, full of fire and hope, banging so loud I can't sleep, can't think? What is it that aches when he kisses me, aches when I walk away? -- Sarah Ockler
I closed my eyes under the fluroescent lights and tried to make another birthday wish, a onetime do-over, a rebate, a trade-in on the kitchen sink kiss that started everything, offered up for just one last miracle. -- Sarah Ockler
My entire life has changed in the span of three weeks, but as the seals howl against the Pacific, everything around me remains exactly the same. -- Sarah Ockler
Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me. -- Sarah Ockler
Ladies and gentlemen, Princess Pink has officially brung it. -- Sarah Ockler
I gave him my own sexy raised eyebrow, because unlike Emilio, I knew how to do that shit correct. -- Sarah Ockler
How can you say it was all a lie?" I ask, just above a whisper. "Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way always. 'We have to look out for her.' That was the last thing he said to me alone. And then he died. What was I supposed to do, Frank? Tell me? -- Sarah Ockler
And I don't want to talk about it, because one day his name will brush against my lips in her presence, and through and involuntary blushing of the cheeks, a misting of the eyes, a breath drawn too tightly, or a single tear, the secret I'm supposed to keep locked up forever will be revealed -- Sarah Ockler
No matter what happens next, I'm not letting this turn into another two weeks of silence, the entire history of us summed up in a series of near misses and almosts just because neither of us had the snowballs to say anything. -- Sarah Ockler
Not everyone who comes to Luna's on gig nights is here to see me. Some people are actually more interested in the coffee. Or the scones. Or in hitting on Emily."
"Oh, I didn't say I wasn't' here to hit on Em," I say. "Just that hitting on Em and enjoying your music aren't mutually exclusive. -- Sarah Ockler
Despite my ability to read people, I felt like an outsider, like someone watching a party from the other side of the glass. I could see these things unfold, but I couldn't quite understand the dynamics, the deep knowing that comes from growing up with people you care about. -- Sarah Ockler
Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service.
Hudson
Angel icing? That's the craziest, corniest, most whack-ass stuff I've heard in my life -- Sarah Ockler
Frankie was so mad that she threw my journal into the bottom of the ocean where it is banished for all eternity with a lovesick mermaid who cries out pieces of sea glass. Are you going to eat that bacon? -- Sarah Ockler
They didn't hold Frankie as she sobbed for hours at a time without talking. They didn't make sure she ate even when she wasn't hungry. They didn't do her homework when she couldn't concentrate, or explain to our teachers why she was late to every class. -- Sarah Ockler
His pink fingers found the shell around my neck, touched it softly. He lifted it and saw the scar. His brow furrowed.
He whispered, "Is your voice inside the shell?"
I smiled a little sadly.
"That's okay," he said. "We don't have to talk to be friends. -- Sarah Ockler
Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart. -- Sarah Ockler
She's a human being, just like me. Frail and faulty and flawed, capable of making the most heinous mistakes and inflicting the most severe pain. But equally capable of the greatest love. -- Sarah Ockler
As we rolled down the Million Dollar Highway, I closed my eyes and held him close around the waist, and he squeezed my hand like it was forever, like we'd really found a way to stop time, and I wanted so, so badly to believe it. -- Sarah Ockler
I'd send them both letters wishing them safe travels. Maybe they'd send me a postcard. Maybe they'd call when they got back, or when they settled in at college. Maybe they wouldn't, and they'd end up in the book. It was uncertain, like life.
I was starting to be okay with that. -- Sarah Ockler
Not so long ago I'd been convinced that losing my voice was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, the worst tragedy. But since then I'd been losing my whole self, everything I stood for, believed in, felt. Everything I ever wanted to be. Everything I ever was. -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity. -- Sarah Ockler
Pictures couldn't tell the whole story anyway. That was the other thing about them - they were always a carefully edited glimpse, a story out of context. -- Sarah Ockler
But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing. -- Sarah Ockler
You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the starting left wing has, like, carrot-hair. he must be Irish. It's the whole UN over there. -- Sarah Ockler
I just swallow hard.
Nod and smile.
One foot in front of the other.
I'm fine, thanks for not asking. -- Sarah Ockler
Music, the universal language of love and hope and loss and everything else. -- Sarah Ockler
Blackthorn? Please. Shut. Up. I grab the collar of his jacket and pull him into me, answering every last protest with a kiss- a real one, deep and intentional. -- Sarah Ockler
I've played a few times, Anna. Remember the parties?"
"Not exactly." I must have been in the bathroom during that part of the nonexistent parties, hiding out from the vomiting hot girl while Frankie completed her beer pong apprenticeship. -- Sarah Ockler
Not only does he reduce my best friend's emotional state to something akin to an annoying rash, he also plants a new seed in my already overcrowded brain -- Sarah Ockler
My sisters were wrong to name the Vargas boys in the oath. Names had nothing to do with it. All boys were destined to break your heart. -- Sarah Ockler
No one wants to do it with a chick who smells like bacon."
Her brow creases. "Everybody loves bacon. -- Sarah Ockler
I promise I'll take you there someday. I want to see it with you. I want to see everything with you. -- Sarah Ockler
No matter where on the globe you went, something was always changing. -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes life's most important moments are quiet, a decision made quick and calm. -- Sarah Ockler
Not everybody gets a happy ending, however deserved it may be. Life had been doing its damnedest to teach me that, starting with my first saltwater breath, the day my mother died at sea.
But that didn't mean we were giving up. -- Sarah Ockler
I was, but then I realized that I was holding on to something that didn't exist anymore. That the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn't all day long but that never works. -- Sarah Ockler
They tear each other apart. Sometimes there aren't any happy endings or logical explanations and we just have to accept that and move on. Sometimes it really is that simple. -- Sarah Ockler
In that moment, in the
smoky haze, Celi looks grown up and wounded, and I
realize how young I really am in my long pink nightgown.
My sisters have a whole collection of broken hearts in a
book, and I haven't even gotten my period yet. -- Sarah Ockler
Love didn't save me; it changed me. Changed me into someone who could save myself. -- Sarah Ockler
I think we both like Crazy Anna a little more than regular Anna. It's like magic - while I was trying on the bathing suit last month, it rubbed against my butt and unleashed the Absolute Best Summer Ever Bikini Genie, granting all my wishes. -- Sarah Ockler
Nature: it's own creation, it's own mystery, existing long before we took our first breaths and long after we take our last. -- Sarah Ockler
Maybe he's just ... craving the meatloaf?"
Dani hops off the counter and gives me the once over. "Craving the meatloaf? Is that what the kids are calling it now? -- Sarah Ockler
They don't want to know that you'll never eat birthday cake because you don't want to erase the magical taste of frosting on his lips. That you wake up ever day wondering why you got to live and he didn't. -- Sarah Ockler
I like him, okay?"
"No you don't. You 'well I'm un I don't know um I guess yeah maybe' him. -- Sarah Ockler
I pick up my journal, mug, and granola bar wrapper, look up to the sky, and curse the God of Summer Vacations for getting me into this whole albatross-ditching, Sam-avoiding, aiding-and-abetting mess in the first place. -- Sarah Ockler
Nothing ever really goes away
it just changes into something else. Something beautiful. -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes a tarnished life was worse than a swift death. -- Sarah Ockler
Oh, so you're untouchable, huh, Delilah? You and your fucked-up relationship with your mother and everyone else in your life? Great. Does getting pissed at me make it better? does it fix ANYTHING?"
"You! Can't! Fix! Me! -- Sarah Ockler
Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold. -- Sarah Ockler
What if he thinks I'm a tourist girl looking for some romantics long distance love affair just so she can share his gushing, beach-stained postcards with her friends? -- Sarah Ockler
You know, when a person is murdered, you can miss that person and put all of your anger into hating the killer, even if you don't know who the killer is. You also have the choice of forgiveness. But when someone takes her own life, she is the killer. -- Sarah Ockler
I take a deep breath,
count to ten,
and bury it,
way down deep -- Sarah Ockler
No one can be your reason to stay- you have to want it. -- Sarah Ockler
You can't help who you love,"he says,"even if the timing is horrendous. -- Sarah Ockler
It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was ... perfect. -- Sarah Ockler
Abby's my sister, Hudson. We're twins."
"Oh thank God! I mean thank God ... that you ... have a sister ... what a special ... um, napkin? -- Sarah Ockler
There were lots of ways to lose your voice. -- Sarah Ockler
...Dads are supposed to be the strong ones. That's probably why Red has so many lines on his forehead. All the hurt goes up there to hide. -- Sarah Ockler
You ask me why I'm nice to you," he said. "Why, why, why. But you don't ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want. -- Sarah Ockler
See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition for national competitions. But me? I am not that friend. -- Sarah Ockler
It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it. -- Sarah Ockler
Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters. -- Sarah Ockler
I wish we could get a real tree," Bug says. "Then at least we'd have one real tradition, since that whole Santa thing's a bust. I mean, if parents are gonna make up a cool story, at least do it realistically. Like, have the guy use FedEx or something-no way reindeer can fly with all that weight. -- Sarah Ockler
Because maybe Watonka was only ever supposed to be a temporary stopover, and maybe I will chase that train over the hill, and maybe we're all destined to leave this place, for sure, for real, together or alone. But for right now, we're here. -- Sarah Ockler
Your heart's pounding like mad,' he whispered. Fingers brushed my collarbone, tapped gently. 'Ba-bom. Ba-bom. -- Sarah Ockler
Mat - Red and Jayne's Matt, Frankie's Matt, my Matt - died of a broken heart. -- Sarah Ockler
Hear you're training again," she says. "For the Capriani Cup."
"Who told-"
"You did," she says. "Just now. -- Sarah Ockler
Read them, Anna. Really read them. -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes I think we all feel guilty for being happy, and as soon as we catch ourselves acting like everything is okay, someone remembers it's not. -- Sarah Ockler
Are you for real?' I whispered against his lips. 'Yes or no.'
'You're killing me, princesa.' His words slid into my mouth as our bodies pressed together. -- Sarah Ockler
Keep it," he says. "Something to remember me by."
"I don't need a sweatshirt for that," I say, already putting it back on.
"Then keep it because it's cool."
"Deal. -- Sarah Ockler
Emilio and his brothers had been a topic of more Jude-and-Zoe middle school gabfests than the Cullens, the Lightwoods, or any of the other mysterious yet fictional bad boys we dreamed about back then, and she'd freak if she knew he'd resurfaced. -- Sarah Ockler
Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said. -- Sarah Ockler
Anyway, what about you? How's, um, Abby? Angie? What's her name?
Oh, Hudson. Your suavity is an example to us all. -- Sarah Ockler
Don't move, Anna Reiley. Right now, everything is perfect. -- Sarah Ockler
I used to think certain people in my life were the real deal. That we'd stay tight forever. -- Sarah Ockler
The sun rises over the Grand Canyon, igniting rocks that have been there for two billion years before we were born and will likely remain two billion years after we're gone. My heart aches with the cruel and unimaginable beauty of it. We are nothing. We are everything. -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes life rocks so hard your heart wants to explode just because the sun came up and you got to feel it on your face for one more day ... Sometimes you get the bitter end instead. -- Sarah Ockler
When one dream burns to ash, you don't crumble beneath it. You get on your hands and knees, and you sift through those ashes until you find the very last ember, the very last spark. Then you breathe. You breathe. You fucking breathe. And you make a new fire. -- Sarah Ockler
Every day you wake up and think, we'll fix things tomorrow. -- Sarah Ockler
Let someone else have a lucky day, Anna. -- Sarah Ockler
I'm not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I'm not sure of anything. -- Sarah Ockler
They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep. -- Sarah Ockler
If you could, would you ask
For moonbeams in a heart of glass?
For sun rays on the silver sea?
Or would you ask for me? -- Sarah Ockler
He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to know and create them, to share them with the world. -- Sarah Ockler
I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him. -- Sarah Ockler
What if I come back and I'm different, Anna? Sometimes you go to a place where everything is different, and everything you ever know changes, and no one ever looks at you the same? -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes, a sigh was all the fight you had left. -- Sarah Ockler
Aunt Rachel says tahat the universe is always trying to speak to us, and that the universe doesn't waste time speaking about things that aren't within our direct power to influence or change. But if that's true, the universe needs a better signal. -- Sarah Ockler
We have the ability to pass our memories on. We just have to tell them to someone. -- Sarah Ockler
Somewhere along the seashore, a strange wind blows over the ocean, and twenty oblivious boys simultaneously look up from their surfboards. -- Sarah Ockler
I'd rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people aren't real. -- Sarah Ockler
I'll never know exactly what I lost, how much it should hurt, how long I should keep thinking about him. -- Sarah Ockler
Anger was sharp edged and clear. Grief was messy, blurry.
But in the end both left you hollowed out inside. -- Sarah Ockler
It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint. -- Sarah Ockler
The late-night backyard encounter and kiss induced insomnia. -- Sarah Ockler
Stephanie was ... intense. That's the best word to describe her, Del. The best one. -- Sarah Ockler
Emilio smiled, and it was like, stubble, dimples, scar. Damn. -- Sarah Ockler
It takes a strong woman to lose everything, then stand naked in front of the mirror and face herself again. You need time, honey. And I don't mean time for it to go away. I mean time to learn how to live with it. This is a pain you'll always carry. -- Sarah Ockler
How can I fault her for trying to bury a truth that when exposed to air and sunlight could only hurt the ones she loves? -- Sarah Ockler
If I closed my eyes as you were talking, it was like I was there, like your stories were my stories. In many ways, I feel as if I have memories of you there, too. -- Sarah Ockler
Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up. -- Sarah Ockler
I was falling in love.
I am losing my father.
With Emilio Vargas.
To smoke and shadow.
My heart fluttered.
My heart aches.
To feel it.
To deny it.
Life.
Death.
Possibilities.
Endings -- Sarah Ockler
Every story is part of a whole, entire life, you know? Happy and sad and tragic and whatever, but an entire life. And books let you know them. -- Sarah Ockler
Surrounding us is an ocean of mess and misunderstanding, full of pirates and sharks just waiting to see who slips in first -- Sarah Ockler
The girl who'd written volumes on the walls but never said a word. -- Sarah Ockler
Emily, Megan, Jack, Luna, Patrick ... they helped me learn what true friendship is. It's never perfect, but it is important. -- Sarah Ockler
Some people call it child labor. I call it ... let's not get technical. -- Sarah Ockler
The only thing that's ours to accept is the fact that we don't always get to know the answers. -- Sarah Ockler
The bike would be finished this
summer and Papi would be fine, and Janice and all the
other concerned medical professionals could take their
long-term care facility and shove it, while the rest of us
ate empanadas and laughed about that one summer Papi
almost lost his mind. -- Sarah Ockler
She makes her people work on Sundays?" Rachel whispers, pulling some of my grandmother's old food from he fridge and sniffing it.
"Nah-weekends are optional. They only have to work them if they want to keep their jobs. -- Sarah Ockler
There's peace in acceptance. Death in it, always. Inevitable. With the acceptance of one thing comes the dying of another: a new belief, a relationship. An ideal, a plan, a what-if. Assumptions. A path. A song. -- Sarah Ockler
It's strange," I say, rubbing my feet against his. "I feel like I should be sad, but I'm not. It's not that I won't miss you, but it just feels like-"
"Like everything is going to be okay anyway," he says, finishing my thought. -- Sarah Ockler
Sure, Mom. There are worse punishments than tailing Patrick all summer. Don't contractors usually work without shirts? -- Sarah Ockler
When it's like this, I don't notice the cold. I don't hear the wind howling through the empty spaces. I don't feel like a small, broken-winged bird trapped in a rusty cage. -- Sarah Ockler
Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six. -- Sarah Ockler
So Old Man Date Rape was number what?" she asks. "Four or five?"
"We're not counting him," I say. "This is the Twenty Boy Summer, not the Twenty Dirty Old Man Summer. -- Sarah Ockler
Have some carrots. They're good for your eyes."
"Then you have some fries. They're good for your ... I don't know. They're just good. -- Sarah Ockler
Anna," he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair."Don't you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?" "No." Just, then, i didn't know what anything meant. -- Sarah Ockler
Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened. -- Sarah Ockler
But I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside her in the sand. -- Sarah Ockler
Whenever we'd pass a penny on the sidewalk, Matt wouldn't touch it. 'Let someone else have a lucky day,' he'd say. -- Sarah Ockler
And there it was, so fleeting I almost missed it.
Christian Kane's real, unguarded smile. -- Sarah Ockler
Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure. -- Sarah Ockler
Hey. We good?" Christian asked.
They were all watching me, even the creepy doll head.
So I closed my eyes and said what I said best.
Nothing. -- Sarah Ockler
It's rally bad when dads cry. -- Sarah Ockler
Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and the translucent veil of general okayness evaporates to reveal the honest, ugly parts underneath. -- Sarah Ockler
I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound. -- Sarah Ockler
I'm fine, thanks for not asking. -- Sarah Ockler
When you don't feel like talking, no one can force you, no matter how many stories and secrets might be locked inside. -- Sarah Ockler
What is the statute of limitations on feeling guilty for cheating on a ghost? -- Sarah Ockler
All the people who'd brought me here, past and present, ancient and young, legend and life and lore, I channeled. I welcomed them into my infinite heart, alongside the ghosts, the shadows, the ache I'd always carry. I made their strength mine, a part of me. My inspiration. My voice. -- Sarah Ockler
What's up? Need a kidney? Two of them? Where do I sign? I grab my pen again, just in case. -- Sarah Ockler
My eyes were closed and his mouth tasted like marzipan flowers and clove cigarettes, and in ten seconds the whole of my life was wrapped up in that one kiss, that one wish, that one secret that would forever divide my life into two parts. -- Sarah Ockler
Left turn in four. Hundred. Feet.
An invisible electronic woman navigates us toward the highway from the distant planet Monotone, where everyone is tranquil and directionally adept, -- Sarah Ockler
We all long for what could have been. -- Sarah Ockler
I'm not in love with him. I'm in love with the way he erases things. -- Sarah Ockler
Like the beach glass you guys always brought me. Sometimes I dump it out on my desk and press my ear to the pieces, trying to hear the ocean. Trying to hear you. -- Sarah Ockler
The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before. -- Sarah Ockler
If motorcycles - or any object from a person's past - could cure this thing, it would no longer exist. People would unearth their family treasures, polish up the old jewels, bring their loved ones back from the moon. -- Sarah Ockler
No matter how long you waited, no matter how hard you wished, no matter how much you missed the past, time marched forward. -- Sarah Ockler
My journal, my written thoughts like the lost children of my soul -- Sarah Ockler
Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions. -- Sarah Ockler
Garra's got a way with the ladies," the Plazma wannabe announces with a wink. "So do I - it's a bass player thing. -- Sarah Ockler
What good are all those bits of nostalgia when the one thing that truly holds you to a place - the one thing that really makes it home over any other dot on the map - crumbles? -- Sarah Ockler
Chocolate Cherry Fixer-Uppers -- Sarah Ockler
Doesn't matter how many people are in the crowd anymore, Delilah. Ten or ten thousand, I'm still only singing for one. -- Sarah Ockler
I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix. -- Sarah Ockler
Matt died of a broken heart -- Sarah Ockler
But when you're in the middle of being in love with someone, you just don't stop to ask, "Matt, -- Sarah Ockler
Are we all on the same page, Delilah?
The same page? I don't even think we're even in the same library, but no need to bring that up. -- Sarah Ockler
For a girl who's been burned before, risking it all is easier said than done. -- Sarah Ockler
I just want to be floating, suspended here in my California time capsule with neither yesterday's dusk or tomorrow's dawn anywhere on the horizon. -- Sarah Ockler
you can't promise yourself that you're not going to fall in love with someone. I'm not exactly a relationship expert, but I don't think it works that way -- Sarah Ockler
I wonder how many loose buttons there are in this world, just rolling around in a jar without a mate or a blouse to go on. No purpose. Just siting there unnoticed. Forgotten. -- Sarah Ockler
Everyone says that the internet is so awesome because you can connect with people from all over the world, but I think it's the opposite. The internet doesn't make it easier to connect with anyone - it just makes it so you don't really have to. -- Sarah Ockler
For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes. -- Sarah Ockler
I wonder how much we don't see. How much of our lives we witness and accept as truth when the rest of the iceberg - the heaviest, bulkiest part - is buried and invisible. -- Sarah Ockler
No one knows me here. No one knows that they're supposed to feel sorry for
me. -- Sarah Ockler
But homegirl don't know jack about hockey! -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes the right hug from the right person at the exact right time makes all the wrong in the world disappear... -- Sarah Ockler
I understand how easy it would be to lose yourself in the heart of another. It's frightening. Exhilarating. An ocean with no lifeguard. -- Sarah Ockler
We can get used to just about anything but it doesn't mean it's okay -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes you gotta just take things for what they are and appreciate them, not try to label it or explain it. Explanations take the mystery out of it, you know? -- Sarah Ockler
It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended before it even really began, leaving nothing behind but secrets and broken hearts. -- Sarah Ockler
Because they're parents. It's in the job description. Must drive minivans. Must be immune to fashion. Must be freaks. -- Sarah Ockler
You know it wouldn't kill you to walk, right, old man?"
"Maybe not. Wouldn't kill you to keep your clothes on, either. -- Sarah Ockler
Explanations take the mystery out of things, right? -- Sarah Ockler
This is mine, I thought. Music. Rhythm. The intense rush that came from connecting with something so deeply, so right. No matter that I couldn't sing. I could breathe. I could dance. I could move. The music was still in me. It always would be. -- Sarah Ockler
Ink and paper were the only place where my voice didn't falter, didn't betray the real me. -- Sarah Ockler
Sometimes love was a tonic. Sometimes it was a weapon. And so often it was nearly impossible to tell the difference -- Sarah Ockler
What they hadn't talked about was betrayal. How something you'd known and loved forever could turn on you, could break your heart even as it left you alive. -- Sarah Ockler
There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. -- Sarah Ockler
That was the thing about pictures. No matter how beautiful, they couldn't capture the truly felt parts of a moment. -- Sarah Ockler
Sweetheart, when you say Matt's name, you have the same look in your eyes that he'd get whenever he'd say yours. -- Sarah Ockler
There were tears in his eyes. The ocean rose inside him, and I looked away, before it got me, too. -- Sarah Ockler
But when he died, I saw
nothing. There was nothing left to see. -- Sarah Ockler
I told him that I would love him with everything I had in me until the very end of everything, and I meant it. -- Sarah Ockler
I'll be thinking of you. Always. -- Sarah Ockler
But there's something about Watonka, they say. Something that pulls us back, the electromagnet that holds all the metal in place -- Sarah Ockler
It got him killed, but at least he felt something. -- Sarah Ockler