Irreverant Quote by Sarah Ockler

“Tonight, when Frankie sits at the table and innocently knocks over her glass of Diet Coke, Aunt Jayne starts to cry, and the translucent…

— Sarah Ockler

“She was licking something off the end of a wooden spoon. Red froze. His body reacted as if he'd walked in on her twirling…

— Roxanne Snopek

“It happened that green and crazy summer when Frankie was twelve years old. This was the summer when for a long time she had…

— Carson McCullers

“And if you've ever grown up with dreams in your head about life , and how one of these days you would pirate your…

— Colleen Hoover

“Virgin, right?" the voice asks again. It comes from the tall one with white-blond hair falling into his eyes. Frankie is still giggling, and…

— Sarah Ockler

“The ocean will always betray me. No matter how beautiful it is.”

— K.B. Ezzell

“I was feeling like all that crazy sea inside me was settling into a calm. He had drawn it all out of the bottle…

— Heidi Cullinan

“He got her out of her jacket. In less than ten seconds." Frankie shook his head. "God help her if he tries to get…

— Melissa Jensen

“And so I wept my story into the ocean and the ocean received it.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Dude." Percy sent his thoughts through the water, the way he spoke to other sea creatures. "A goldfish?" Frank's voice came back to him:…

— Rick Riordan

“Frankie's chief virtue in my book is the way he talks about his kids.”

— Andre Agassi

“I try to fend off the oceanic sadness, but I can't. It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but…

— Jandy Nelson