Saturday, August 21, 2010

"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."
-pg 289, Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
"There was nothing left to see. It happened and it was impossible and beautiful and then it ended before it really began, leaving nothing behind but secrets and broken hearts."
-pg267, Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
"There's not much anger left between us, just a great divide - like best friends in high school who go to different colleges, lose touch, and move on parallel lives that never cross until years later, in a random bar or grocery store, and after a brief hug and five minutes of small talk, they both realize that the threads that connected them so long ago have frayed and blown away, leaving nothing to discuss."
-pg259, Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
"Everything that came before that night was a pale moon behind the sunshine of that kiss."
~pg209, Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler
The lifelong keeper of broken-hearted secrets
~pg208, Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler

Saturday, August 14, 2010

"When it happens, youre totally unprepared, fragmented and lost, looking fir the hidden meaning in everything. Ive replayed the events of that day a hundred thousand times, looking for clues. An alternate ending. The butterfly effect."
~pg88, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler
"When someone you love dies, people ask you how you are doing, but they don't really want to know. They seek affirmation that you're okay, that you appreciate their concern, that life goes on and so can they. Secretly they wonder when the statute of limitations on asking expires (its three months, by the way. Written or unwritten, ts about all the time it takes for people to forget the one thing that you never will."
~pg73-74, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler
"She looks at me with such compassion that for one second I forgot shes my mother and think she might actually know, like I wear my feelings in big words across my face and all she has to do i brush aside my hair to read them"
~pg 50, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler
"Weeping is different from crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when its over you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up."
~pg 28, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler
" I censored every look i gave him, every word, every touch, certain that I'd mess up and someone would find out....
To our parents, we were the same best friends as always, innocent and inseparable. whenever we could steal a few minutes alone, that's when we became the"other," charged-up thing that kept me up at night, afraid of falling so fast, afraid of losing, afraid it wouldn't last once Frankie found out."
~pg 14-15, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler
"Matt grabbed my hand and pulled me in tight for another kiss, his other hand on my cheek, quick and intense. He pressed his body against mine in the same configuration of hip bones, stomachs, and ribs as the first time. i pressed back, wanting to wrap myself around him, anchor myself to him. it was all that kept me from floating away like a tiny, iridescent bubble."
~pg 8, Twenty Boy summer by Sarah Ockler

Saturday, August 7, 2010

"Yours is the first face that I saw..I think I was blind before I met you..Now I don’t know where I am..I don’t know where I’ve been..But I know where I want to go"
Trying to keep the sad away, but it's eating me alive.
~Christine Sharp