“For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“I was falling in love. I am losing my father. With Emilio Vargas. To smoke and shadow. My heart fluttered. My heart… — 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
“Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take… — Sarah Ockler 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 Copy Share Image
“Inside her head, Frankie had the map to my entire life, and I to hers. I hated that my feelings for Matt… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“The whole idea of losing one's virginity is kind of ridiculous. To lose something implies carelessness. A mistake that you can fix… — Sarah Ockler 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 Copy Share Image
“Because maybe Watonka was only ever supposed to be a temporary stopover, and maybe I will chase that train over the hill,… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“My eyes were closed and his mouth tasted like marzipan flowers and clove cigarettes, and in ten seconds the whole of my… — Sarah Ockler 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 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 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
“We only had this one life. We could wish for the past all day long. We could look at old pictures and… — Sarah Ockler 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
“My entire life has changed in the span of three weeks, but as the seals howl against the Pacific, everything around me… — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“He turned the entire living room into an airport, complete with a four-foot-high LEGO traffic control tower and a fleet of paper… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“All the little quirks that make even the most barren, frigid places beautiful, that make a tiny gray dot on the map… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“I used to think certain people in my life were the real deal. That we'd stay tight forever.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“I was falling in love. I am losing my father. With Emilio Vargas. To smoke and shadow. My heart fluttered. My heart aches. To… — 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 on your… — 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 thinking about… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“But when he died, I saw - nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“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… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“...while well-meaning relatives and friends stopped by, bearing an endless supply of cards and food in disposable foil pans and saying all the wrong… — Sarah Ockler 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 ever know… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Patrick leans in for a hug through the open doorway, and in his arms I'm reminded of the other dream I had last night,… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
