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> [“We only had this one life. We could wish for the past all day long. We could look at old pictures and tell ourselves the same old stories but they're just that—stories. Memories. They happened. And maybe they were wonderful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/we-only-had-this-one-life-we-could-wish-for-the-past-all-day-long-we/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

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## More by Sarah Ockler

> [“For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/for-all-its-ridiculous-imperfections-life-is-pretty-damn-perfect/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/because-i-realized-i-was-falling-for-another-guy-fifty-six/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/i-was-falling-in-love-i-am-losing-my-father-with-emilio-vargas-to/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/sometimes-life-rocks-so-hard-your-heart-wants-to-explode-just-because/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/the-hardest-thing-is-that-i-ll-never-know-exactly-what-i-lost-how/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“bienvenue au fucking Canada!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/bienvenue-au-fucking-canada/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/i-was-but-then-i-realized-that-i-was-holding-on-to-something-that/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“But when he died, I saw - nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/but-when-he-died-i-saw-nothing-there-was-nothing-left-to-see-it/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/don-t-settle-okay-not-for-anything-i-mean-it-you-only-get-this-one/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“...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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/while-well-meaning-relatives-and-friends-stopped-by-bearing-an/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/what-if-i-come-back-and-i-m-different-anna-sometimes-you-go-to-a/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/patrick-leans-in-for-a-hug-through-the-open-doorway-and-in-his-arms-i/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“We all long for what could have been.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/we-all-long-for-what-could-have-been/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

> [“. . . how easily some things can be broken for good and for bad, and how some things, no matter how shattered, can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/how-easily-some-things-can-be-broken-for-good-and-for-bad-and-how/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-ockler/she-s-a-human-being-just-like-me-frail-and-faulty-and-flawed-capable/)

[Sarah Ockler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-ockler/)

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