“Emily, Megan, Jack, Luna, Patrick . . . they helped me learn what true friendship is. It's never perfect, but it is important.” — Sarah Ockler Friend Copy Share Image
“So Old Man Date Rape was number what?" she asks. "Four or five?" "We're not counting him," I say. "This is the… — Sarah Ockler Old man Copy Share Image
“Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me… — Sarah Ockler Every morning Copy Share Image
“Every story is part of a whole, entire life, you know? Happy and sad and tragic and whatever, but an entire life.… — Sarah Ockler Books Copy Share Image
“The only thing that's ours to accept is the fact that we don't always get to know the answers.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Your heart's pounding like mad,' he whispered. Fingers brushed my collarbone, tapped gently. 'Ba- bom . Ba- bom .” — Sarah Ockler Heart pounding Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Ockler Fall in love Copy Share Image
“I wonder how many loose buttons there are in this world, just rolling around in a jar without a mate or a… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“When you're out here alone, contemplating all the things you didn't do and the person you didn't become ... if you think… — Sarah Ockler 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
“But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“He read with intensity and was passionately in love with every character, every turn of plot or twist of language. He made… — Sarah Ockler Books Copy Share Image
“Oh, so you're untouchable, huh, Delilah? You and your fucked-up relationship with your mother and everyone else in your life? Great. Does… — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
“Aunt Rachel says tahat the universe is always trying to speak to us, and that the universe doesn't waste time speaking about… — Sarah Ockler Time Copy Share Image
“I think you're beautiful," an old man at the counter - one of our Sunday night fixtures - says. ... "You passed… — Sarah Ockler Beauty Copy Share Image
“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,… — Sarah Ockler Books Copy Share Image
“What if I come back and I'm different, Anna? Sometimes you go to a place where everything is different, and everything you… — Sarah Ockler Change Copy Share Image
“It was as though my heart made room for two truths that night—one real, the other safe and familiar and desirable.” — Sarah Ockler Truth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think we all feel guilty for being happy, and as soon as we catch ourselves acting like everything is okay,… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Ockler Cold Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“If I closed my eyes as you were talking, it was like I was there, like your stories were my stories. In… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters.” — Sarah Ockler Beginnings and endings Copy Share Image
“Abby's my sister, Hudson. We're twins." "Oh thank God! I mean thank God... that you... have a sister... what a special... um,… — Sarah Ockler Sister Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think I'm an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all… — Sarah Ockler Alien Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to… — Sarah Ockler Books Copy Share Image
“I accept the hard reality that I maybe might possibly be just the slightest tiniest littlest bit kinda sorta interested in him.” — Sarah Ockler Attraction Copy Share Image
“I pick up my journal, mug, and granola bar wrapper, look up to the sky, and curse the God of Summer Vacations… — Sarah Ockler First place Copy Share Image
“Sometimes looking at Frankie is like seeing Matt through a glass of water - a distorted composition of him with all the… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“See, some people politely encourage their tone-deaf friends to sing. Some people even convince them to go on live television and audition… — Sarah Ockler Friends Copy Share Image
“Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I wonder if my whole life will pass by this way: me waiting in the shadows, waiting for something to happen.… — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
“I think we both like Crazy Anna a little more than regular Anna. It's like magic - while I was trying on… — Sarah Ockler Bathing suit Copy Share Image
“Frankie was so mad that she threw my journal into the bottom of the ocean where it is banished for all eternity… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“No matter what happens next, I'm not letting this turn into another two weeks of silence, the entire history of us summed… — Sarah Ockler History Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Ockler Heartless Copy Share Image
“...if I let him walk away now, we'll forever be a "just"; Just hockey player and skating coach. Just music swappers. Just… — Sarah Ockler Hockey player Copy Share Image
“Mom asked for a cupcake miracle? Well, here comes the freaking holy angel of icing, at your service. --Hudson Angel icing? That's… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
