“Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that's what everyone said.” — Sarah Ockler Chick-lit Copy Share Image
“Mat - Red and Jayne's Matt, Frankie's Matt, my Matt - died of a broken heart.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“My journal, my written thoughts like the lost children of my soul.” — Sarah Ockler Children Copy Share Image
“No one knows me here. No one knows that they’re supposed to feel sorry for me.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“the person I missed didn't exist anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they wouldn't… — Sarah Ockler Change Copy Share Image
“It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“I wonder how much we don‘t see. How much of our lives we witness and accept as truth when the rest of… — Sarah Ockler Iceberg Copy Share Image
“The first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“No one wants to do it with a chick who smells like bacon." Her brow creases. "Everybody loves bacon.” — Sarah Ockler Bacon Copy Share Image
“I used to think certain people in my life were the real deal. That we'd stay tight forever.” — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. — Sarah Ockler Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Sure, Mom." There are worse punishments than tailing Patrick all summer. Don't contractors usually work without shirts?” — Sarah Ockler Punishments Copy Share Image
“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,… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“She makes her people work on Sundays?" Rachel whispers, pulling some of my grandmother's old food from he fridge and sniffing it.… — Sarah Ockler Sunday Copy Share Image
“But when he died, I saw - nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful… — Sarah Ockler Broken hearts Copy Share Image
“Don't settle for stuff. That's pretty much the only thing I learned in life. You see something, some chance for something great,… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life rocks so hard your heart wants to explode just because the sun came up and you got to feel it… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“You think we live in Norway or something? Amir Jordan is Pakistani. There's also an Asian guy, some Puerto Ricans, and the… — Sarah Ockler Amir Copy Share Image
“In your entire life, you can probably count your true friends on one hand. Maybe even on one finger. Those are the… — Sarah Ockler Entire life Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Aaaand we have a winnerrrrr!" a man shouts into the mic in a singsong carnival voice as I lick the last of… — Sarah Ockler Ice cream Copy Share Image
“Hey. What did you do to your - I mean, you look different." My cheeks go immediately hot. Not that your average… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing is that I’ll never know exactly what I lost, how much it should hurt, how long I should keep… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“It‘s complicated. I think when bad things happen—whether someone dies or people argue or split up—you get to a point where it‘s… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“We only had this one life. We could wish for the past all day long. We could look at old pictures and… — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
“I'm still dropping dishes thinking in slow motion about the GPS woman in Mom's car. I imagine her beckoning me from outside… — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
“When someone you love dies, people ask you how you're doing, but they don't really want to know. They seek affirmation that… — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
“But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words… — Sarah Ockler Alzheimers Copy Share Image
“But in the end, there were only two boys that really mattered. Matt and Sam.” — Sarah Ockler Boys Copy Share Image
“What if he thinks I'm a tourist girl looking for some romantics long distance love affair just so she can share his… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.” — Sarah Ockler Actions Copy Share Image
“...but I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I… — Sarah Ockler Ocean Copy Share Image
“Not only does he reduce my best friend’s emotional state to something akin to an annoying rash, he also plants a new… — Sarah Ockler Best friend Copy Share Image
“I just want to be floating, suspended here in my California time capsule with neither yesterday's dusk or tomorrow's dawn anywhere on… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Like the beach glass you guys always brought me. Sometimes I dump it out on my desk and press my ear to… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Blackthorn? Please. Shut. Up." I grab the collar of his jacket and pull him into me, answering every last protest with a… — Sarah Ockler Blackthorn Copy Share Image
