“For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.” — Sarah Ockler Life Copy Share Image
“Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six.” — Sarah Ockler Hudson 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
“Sometimes life rocks so hard your heart wants to explode just because the sun came up and you got to feel it… — Sarah Ockler Life 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 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
“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, 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
“...while well-meaning relatives and friends stopped by, bearing an endless supply of cards and food in disposable foil pans and saying all… — Sarah Ockler Better place 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
“Patrick leans in for a hug through the open doorway, and in his arms I'm reminded of the other dream I had… — Sarah Ockler Dreams Copy Share Image
“. . . how easily some things can be broken for good and for bad, and how some things, no matter how… — Sarah Ockler 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
“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
“Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters.” — Sarah Ockler Beginnings and endings 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
“But in the end, there were only two boys that really mattered. Matt and Sam.” — Sarah Ockler Copy Share Image
“We have the ability to pass our memories on. We just have to tell them to someone.” — Sarah Ockler Memory 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 Time 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
“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
“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
