If I could find the butterfly that flapped its wings before we got into the car that day, I would crush it.
Sarah OcklerSometimes 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 OcklerAnna," 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 OcklerSame people. Same hellos and goodbyes. Same beginnings and endings. Same befores and afters.
Sarah OcklerI'm fine, thanks for not asking.
Sarah OcklerWhen someone you love dies, people ask you how you're 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, that's about all the time it takes for people to forget the one thing that you never will).
Sarah OcklerBut when he died, I saw-- nothing. There was nothing left to see.
Sarah OcklerSometimes 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 OcklerBut 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 OcklerTag: twenty-boy-summer
Somewhere along the seashore, a strange wind blows over the ocean, and twenty oblivious boys simultaneously look up from their surfboards.
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