Top 100 Sarah Ockler Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Frankie Perino and I were lucky that day. Lucky to be alive-that’s what everyone said.”

— Sarah Ockler

52. “He loved to read. He loved words, the way they string together into sentences and stories. He wanted to study them, to know and create them, to share them with the world.”

— Sarah Ockler

53. “Matt died of a broken heart.”

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54. “I pick up my journal, mug, and granola bar wrapper, look up to the sky, and curse the God of Summer Vacations for getting me into this whole albatross-ditching, Sam-avoiding, aiding-and-abetting mess in the first place.”

— Sarah Ockler

55. “What they hadn’t talked about was betrayal. How something you’d known and loved forever could turn on you, could break your heart even as it left you alive.”

— Sarah Ockler

56. “I‘m not in love with him. I‘m in love with the way he erases things.”

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57. “They say true genius often strikes in the pale moments between awake and asleep.”

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58. “Frankie was so mad that she threw my journal into the bottom of the ocean where it is banished for all eternity with a lovesick mermaid who cries out pieces of sea glass. Are you going to eat that bacon?”

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59. “Every day you wake up and think, we’ll fix things tomorrow.”

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60. “Let someone else have a lucky day, Anna.”

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61. “Science: a construct created by man to explain away all of life’s mysteries. Nature: it’s own creation, it’s own mystery, existing long before we took our first breaths and long after we take our last.”

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62. “But when he died, I saw – nothing. There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended before it even really began, leaving nothing behind but secrets and broken hearts.”

— Sarah Ockler

63. “We have the ability to pass our memories on. We just have to tell them to someone.”

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64. “Despite my ability to read people, I felt like an outsider, like someone watching a party from the other side of the glass. I could see these things unfold, but I couldn’t quite understand the dynamics, the deep knowing that comes from growing up with people you care about.”

— Sarah Ockler

65. “Sometimes life’s most important moments are quiet, a decision made quick and calm.”

— Sarah Ockler

66. “When you’re in the middle of being in love with someone, you just don’t stop to ask.”

— Sarah Ockler

67. “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 him. He took that mystery with him when he died, and a hundred thousand one-sided letters in my journal wouldn’t have brought me any closer to the truth than I was at the night I pressed my fingers to the sea glass he wore around his neck and kissed him back.”

— Sarah Ockler

68. “Crying never brought anything back from the dead. It only felt like the ocean trying to drown you from the inside out.”

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69. “Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold.”

— Sarah Ockler

70. “But there’s something about Watonka, they say. Something that pulls us back, the electromagnet that holds all the metal in place.”

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71. “We arrived in Vermont expecting to fix up the old lake house. But in the end, it was the house that fixed us.”

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72. “I wish we could get a real tree,” Bug says. “Then at least we’d have one real tradition, since that whole Santa thing’s a bust. I mean, if parents are gonna make up a cool story, at least do it realistically. Like, have the guy use FedEx or something-no way reindeer can fly with all that weight.”

— Sarah Ockler

73. “Don’t move, Anna Reiley. Right now, everything is perfect.”

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74. “Pictures couldn’t tell the whole story anyway. That was the other thing about them – they were always a carefully edited glimpse, a story out of context.”

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75. “The guilt of not telling Frankie about Matt and me is overwhelming, but it’s a pale second to the violation I feel that she read my most private, raw thoughts and destroyed them. She broke into my carefully guarded heart, stole the only remaining connection I had to Matt, and turned it into a monstrosity.”

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76. “It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint.”

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77. “All the people who’d brought me here, past and present, ancient and young, legend and life and lore, I channeled. I welcomed them into my infinite heart, alongside the ghosts, the shadows, the ache I’d always carry. I made their strength mine, a part of me. My inspiration. My voice.”

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78. “I’m sorry. For all of us. Sorry for all the little ways the people who were supposed to love us most could hurt us so deeply, despite their shared heritage and blood, as thought their knowledge of our pasts gave them unlimited access to all the most tender places, the old wounds that could be so easily reopened with no more than a glance, a comment, a passing reminder of all the ways in which we failed to live up to their expectations.”

— Sarah Ockler

79. “There were tears in his eyes. The ocean rose inside him, and I looked away, before it got me, too.”

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80. “No matter how long you waited, no matter how hard you wished, no matter how much you missed the past, time marched forward.”

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81. “The girl who’d written volumes on the walls but never said a word.”

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82. “Not so long ago I’d been convinced that losing my voice was the worst thing that could ever happen to me, the worst tragedy. But since then I’d been losing my whole self, everything I stood for, believed in, felt. Everything I ever wanted to be. Everything I ever was.”

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83. “Ink and paper were the only place where my voice didn’t falter, didn’t betray the real me.”

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84. “Because I realized I was falling for another guy, fifty-six.”

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85. “They key to a great party is the music,” Sam says, scrolling through his iPod as we tramp through the sand. Eddie – the guy having the party – put Sam in charge of the playlist. “If it’s too intense, no one will be able to hang out and talk. But if it’s too mellow, it will turn into a snoozefest. You also have to consider timing. There’s a particular kind of music appropriate for each stage of the party – intro, warm-up, full swing, wind-down, and outro.”

— Sarah Ockler

86. “Don’t settle for stuff. That’s pretty much the only thing I learned in life. You see something, some chance for something great, you take it. You grab your keys and jump on your bike and go, no regrets.”

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87. “The most tragic thing about California is that nothing is permanent or real here,” he says. “It gets to you, you know?”

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88. “They tear each other apart. Sometimes there aren’t any happy endings or logical explanations and we just have to accept that and move on. Sometimes it really is that simple.”

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89. “That was the thing about pictures. No matter how beautiful, they couldn’t capture the truly felt parts of a moment. Life was different looking through the lens, the colors less vibrant, the beauty less grand. By the time you took the shot, the moment had already passed.”

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90. “Love didn’t save me; it changed me. Changed me into someone who could save myself.”

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91. “Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure.”

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92. “Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they’d never happened.”

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93. “For a girl who’s been burned before, risking it all is easier said than done.”

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94. “No matter where on the globe you went, something was always changing.”

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95. “It got him killed, but at least he felt something.”

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96. “Right here, right now, for the first time since I’d lost my voice, I let it all go.”

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97. “Sometimes love was a tonic. Sometimes it was a weapon. And so often it was nearly impossible to tell the difference.”

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98. “I remember the feeling even now; an inescapable stickines of each other like magnets on the fridge. It’s funny how someone can be such an integral part of your life, like you laugh at the same jokes and eat your ice cream cones the same way and share your toys and dreams and everything but your heartbeats, and then one day – nothing. You share nothing. It’s like none of it ever happened.”

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99. “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 changes, and no one ever looks at you the same?”

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100. “My eyes were closed and his mouth tasted like marzipan flowers and clove cigarettes, and in ten seconds the whole of my life was wrapped up in that one kiss, that one wish, that one secret that would forever divide my life into two parts.”

— Sarah Ockler