But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open your eyes and pull off your blankets, that's what you hope for. The sunshine on your face,warm enough to make you heart sing.
Sarah OcklerTags: best sunshine bittersweet sarah times 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 veil of general okayness evaporates to reveal the honest, ugly parts underneath.
Sarah OcklerSometimes life rocks so hard your heart wants to explode just because the sun came up and you got to feel it on your face for one more day. ...Sometimes you get the bitter end instead.
Sarah OcklerWhat good are all those bits of nostalgia when the one thing that truly holds you to a place - the one thing that really makes it home over any other dot on the map - crumbles?
Sarah OcklerWe can get used to just about anything but it doesn't mean it's okay
Sarah OcklerBut 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 OcklerThe first moments of being awake are neutral, as they always are, waiting for us to assign memory and meaning from the day before.
Sarah OcklerNo one wants to do it with a chick who smells like bacon."
Her brow creases. "Everybody loves bacon.
...if I let him walk away now, we'll forever be a "just"; Just hockey player and skating coach. Just music swappers. Just friends. A not-quite-almost whose time passed through as quickly as the train, fading into the distance before it even had a real chance at staying, at becoming something more, because I didn't speak up.
Sarah OcklerI used to think certain people in my life were the real deal. That we'd stay tight forever.
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