Top 100 Sarah Ockler Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m fine, thanks for not asking.”

— Sarah Ockler

2. “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 anymore. People change. The things we like and dislike change. And we can wish they couldn’t all day long but that never works.”

— Sarah Ockler

3. “Like the stars, fading with the halo of the vanishing moon. Like the ocean, falling and whispering against the shore. Nothing ever really goes away – it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.”

— Sarah Ockler

4. “Nothing ever really goes away – it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.”

— Sarah Ockler

5. “Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.”

— Sarah Ockler

6. “I’m not sure if you even want me around or if you just feel sorry for me. I’m not sure of anything.”

— Sarah Ockler

7. “Sometimes I think we all feel guilty for being happy, and as soon as we catch ourselves acting like everything is okay, someone remembers it’s not.”

— Sarah Ockler

8. “Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I’m heavy, like there’s to much gravity on my heart.”

— Sarah Ockler

9. “Everyone says that the internet is so awesome because you can connect with people from all over the world, but I think it’s the opposite. The internet doesn’t make it easier to connect with anyone – it just makes it so you don’t really have to.”

— Sarah Ockler

10. “Sometimes I think I’m an alien that accidentally fell off the mother ship, destined to wander among clueless earthling parents for all eternity.”

— Sarah Ockler

11. “I just swallow hard. Nod and smile. One foot in front of the other. I’m fine, thanks for not asking.”

— Sarah Ockler

12. “I really don’t even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.”

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13. “But when he died, I saw – nothing. There was nothing left to see.”

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14. “And I don’t want to talk about it, because one day his name will brush against my lips in her presence, and through and involuntary blushing of the cheeks, a misting of the eyes, a breath drawn too tightly, or a single tear, the secret I’m supposed to keep locked up forever will be revealed.”

— Sarah Ockler

15. “The only excuse I can think of is the truth – she’s broken. Until someone can figure out how to fix her, what else can she do?”

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16. “Sometimes you gotta just take things for what they are and appreciate them, not try to label it or explain it. Explanations take the mystery out of it, you know?”

— Sarah Ockler

17. “I’ve never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn’t fix.”

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18. “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 if its not with me.”

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19. “When you don’t feel like talking, no one can force you, no matter how many stories and secrets might be locked inside.”

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20. “I’d rather be completely alone than with a bunch of people aren’t real.”

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21. “Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it’s over, you feel like you don’t have any bones left to hold you up.”

— Sarah Ockler

22. “There’s peace in acceptance. Death in it, always. Inevitable. With the acceptance of one thing comes the dying of another: a new belief, a relationship. An ideal, a plan, a what-if. Assumptions. A path. A song.”

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23. “As we rolled down the Million Dollar Highway, I closed my eyes and held him close around the waist, and he squeezed my hand like it was forever, like we’d really found a way to stop time, and I wanted so, so badly to believe it.”

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24. “It takes a strong woman to lose everything, then stand naked in front of the mirror and face herself again. You need time, honey. And I don’t mean time for it to go away. I mean time to learn how to live with it. This is a pain you’ll always carry.”

— Sarah Ockler

25. “How can you say it was all a lie?” I ask, just above a whisper. “Matt was my best friend. I loved him that way always. ‘We have to look out for her.’ That was the last thing he said to me alone. And then he died. What was I supposed to do, Frank? Tell me?”

— Sarah Ockler

26. “Sometimes looking at Frankie is like seeing Matt through a glass of water – a distorted composition of him with all the right parts, but mixed up and i the wrong order. As I watch her sing his old song, I can’t shake the feeling that he just stopped by to say hello.”

— Sarah Ockler

27. “Every story is part of a whole, entire life, you know? Happy and sad and tragic and whatever, but an entire life. And books let you know them.”

— Sarah Ockler

28. “Sometimes the right hug from the right person at the exact right time makes all the wrong in the world disappear...”

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29. “Same people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters.”

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30. “It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was... perfect.”

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31. “Like the beach glass you guys always brought me. Sometimes I dump it out on my desk and press my ear to the pieces, trying to hear the ocean. Trying to hear you.”

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32. “Sweetheart, when you say Matt’s name, you have the same look in your eyes that he’d get whenever he’d say yours.”

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33. “Read them, Anna. Really read them.”

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34. “Sometimes, a sigh was all the fight you had left.”

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35. “It takes forty muscles to frown, and only twelve to jam a cupcake in your mouth and get over it.”

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36. “You can’t put a condom on your heart.”

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37. “If I could find the butterfly that flapped its wings before we got into the car that day, I would crush it.”

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38. “Anna,” he said, dragging his frosted fingers through my hair.“Don’t you know what it means when a boy pulls your hair at your birthday party?” “No.” Just, then, i didn’t know what anything meant.”

— Sarah Ockler

39. “One month. That’s how long it took before I really freaked out. I was so angry, so filled with rage. But when my body tried to scream, I felt only pain. Emptiness. A raw, tearing ache, again and again and again.”

— Sarah Ockler

40. “Nature: it’s own creation, it’s own mystery, existing long before we took our first breaths and long after we take our last.”

— Sarah Ockler

41. “His gaze was far away, adrift on another sea, and his real smile wasn’t for me. The girl who’d written volumes on the walls but never said a word.”

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42. “There were lots of ways to lose your voice.”

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43. “It was one thing to have your own kind of hope, an ember you could nurture inside, something to inspire you when things got dark. If it died, it was on you; no one else even had to know about it, and you were free to reignite it, or to give up and walk away. But when you were carrying it with another person, for another person, it was a dangerous dream. Treacherous as the sea, yet fragile as a bubble.”

— Sarah Ockler

44. “Sometimes a tarnished life was worse than a swift death.”

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45. “In my time at the Cove, I’d spent many nights scribbling in my journal, attempting to write my way into a solution, into some kind of clarity and acceptance about what I’d lost and where I’d go from here. But maybe clarity was like love, shooting through you when you least expected it, when you’d finally stopped seeking it.”

— Sarah Ockler

46. “When I stood naked before him, I felt powerful, alive. Adored.”

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47. “Doesn’t matter how many people are in the crowd anymore, Delilah. Ten or ten thousand, I’m still only singing for one.”

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48. “But death isn’t an ending, Elyse. Just part of a longer journey. Death begets life, remember. One does not exist without the other.”

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49. “If Frankie and I hadn’t wanted ice cream that stupid day, he’d still be alive. If I hadn’t gotten his heart all worked up kissing him every night since my birthday, he’d still be alive. If I’d never been born, he’d still be alive. If I could find the butterfly that flapped its wings before we got into the car that day, I would crush it.”

— Sarah Ockler

50. “Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that’s what everyone said.”

— Sarah Ockler