“The only thing that's ours to accept is the fact that we don't always get to know the answers.” — Sarah Ockler Answers Copy Share Image
“Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six.” — Sarah Ockler Falling Copy Share Image
“But in the end, there were only two boys that really mattered. Matt and Sam.” — Sarah Ockler Boys 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
“For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.” — Sarah Ockler Imperfections Copy Share Image
“We have the ability to pass our memories on. We just have to tell them to someone.” — Sarah Ockler Memories Copy Share Image
“We can get used to just about anything but it doesn't mean it's okay” — Sarah Ockler Mean 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 Apology 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 Entire life 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 Life Copy Share Image
“She's a human being, just like me. Frail and faulty and flawed, capable of making the most heinous mistakes and inflicting the… — Sarah Ockler Greatest love 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
“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
“...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
“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 Feel 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 Awake Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who comes to Luna's on gig nights is here to see me. Some people are actually more interested in the… — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Everyone says that the internet is so awesome because you can connect with people from all over the world, but I think… — Sarah Ockler Internet 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 Hardest thing 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
“But there’s something about Watonka, they say. Something that pulls us back, the electromagnet that holds all the metal in place. It’s… — Sarah Ockler Buffalo Copy Share Image
“. . . how easily some things can be broken for good and for bad, and how some things, no matter how… — Sarah Ockler Falling Copy Share Image
“I remember the feeling even now; an inescapable stickines of each other like magnets on the fridge. It's funny how someone can… — Sarah Ockler Ice cream 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… — Sarah Ockler Change 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 Cell phone Copy Share Image
“Where is Frankie, anyway?" Dad asks. "It's almost noon. I'm surprised you two can stand the separation." I take a deep breath… — Sarah Ockler First time Copy Share Image
“Aunt Jayne asks if we'd like to stop somewhere for dessert, and since nodding and smiling is easier than shaking our heads… — Sarah Ockler Endangered species Copy Share Image
“I’ll never know exactly what I lost, how much it should hurt, how long I should keep thinking about him.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“Some people call it child labor. I call it... let's not get technical.” — Sarah Ockler Child 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
Weeping is not the same thing as crying, It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like… — Sarah Ockler Crying 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 Bitter Copy Share Image
“I understand how easy it would be to lose yourself in the heart of another. It‘s frightening. Exhilarating. An ocean with no… — Sarah Ockler Lose yourself 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 Death Copy Share Image
“But there’s something about Watonka, they say. Something that pulls us back, the electromagnet that holds all the metal in place” — Sarah Ockler Psychology Copy Share Image
