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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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Let someone else have a lucky day, Anna.

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

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Inside her head, Frankie had the map to my entire life, and I to hers. I hated that my feelings for Matt were uncharted and unmapped like a secret buried treasure.

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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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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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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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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.

— Sarah Ockler

Read them, Anna. Really read them.

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Matt died of a broken heart.

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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

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

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

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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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