Sarah Ockler Twenty Boy Summer Quotes

#1. Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know
because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#2. My home shall be open for the sun and the wind and the voices of the sea - like a Greek temple - and light, light, light everywhere!

Axel Munthe

#3. I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Ken Follett

#4. Anything that's mended is but patched. Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue

William Shakespeare

#5. So Old Man Date Rape was number what?" she asks. "Four or five?"
"We're not counting him," I say. "This is the Twenty Boy Summer, not the Twenty Dirty Old Man Summer.

Sarah Ockler

#6. She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Misty Upham

#8. It was just over a year ago. Twelve months, nine days and six hours ago, actually. But thirteen months ago everything was ... perfect.

Sarah Ockler

#9. It's not whether you're right or wrong, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.

George Soros

#10. They don't want to know that you'll never eat birthday cake because you don't want to erase the magical taste of frosting on his lips. That you wake up ever day wondering why you got to live and he didn't.

Sarah Ockler