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The Summer of Chasing Mermaids QUOTES

The Summer of Chasing Mermaids QUOTES

1 " It takes a strong woman to lose everything, then stand naked in front of the mirror and face herself again. You need time, honey. And I don't mean time for it to go away. I mean time to learn how to live with it. This is a pain you'll always carry. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

2 " This boy wore the ocean in his eyes, green-gray-blue, ever shifting, and I recognized him immediately. Knew before he said another word that he was as dangerous as he was beautiful. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

3 " Beneath the vast diamond sky, I felt both all important and utterly significant, the goddess and the damned in equal measure. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

4 " I'm sorry. For all of us. Sorry for all the little ways the people who were supposed to love us most could hurt us so deeply, despite their shared heritage and blood, as thought their knowledge of our pasts gave them unlimited access to all the most tender places, the old wounds that could be so easily reopened with no more than a glance, a comment, a passing reminder of all the ways in which we failed to live up to their expectations. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

5 " When one dream burns to ash, you don't crumble beneath it. You get on your hands and knees, and you sift through those ashes until you find the very last ember, the very last spark. Then you breathe. You breathe. You fucking breathe. And you make a new fire. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

6 " Love didn't save me; it changed me. Changed me into someone who could save myself. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

7 " It was one thing to have your own kind of hope, an ember you could nurture inside, something to inspire you when things got dark. If it died, it was on you; no one else even had to know about it, and you were free to reignite it, or to give up and walk away. But when you were carrying it with another person, for another person, it was a dangerous dream. Treacherous as the sea, yet fragile as a bubble. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

8 " Sometimes love was a tonic. Sometimes it was a weapon. And so often it was nearly impossible to tell the difference "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

9 " The girl who'd written volumes on the walls but never said a word. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

10 " You can't put a condom on your heart. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

11 " plan B
plan Battered and Broken
plan Boxed in
plan Bailed on and Back from the dead
plan Better luck next time
plan Balled up
plan Backtracked
plan Backhanded
plan Backward steps
plan Blackballed, Black-marked, and Blacklisted
plan B-side, Bye Bye Baby
plan Belly up and Beat down
plan Bad days ahead and Best are far Behind "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

12 " There were lots of ways to lose your voice. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

13 " Yes. I was just telling Elyse here... frankly, kids, I'm not sure it's even legal to have a female first mate. We'd have to consult the rule book, but as far as I know, regatta's a man's race."

Christian's jaw ticked, just like it had with his father the night of the party. "Damn. Must have hit my head on the way out of that time machine. 1850, are we? I might need some new clothes. Elyse, you sew right? Don't all girls sew? "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

14 " What they hadn't talked about was betrayal. How something you'd known and loved forever could turn on you, could break your heart even as it left you alive. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

15 " All the people who'd brought me here, past and present, ancient and young, legend and life and lore, I channeled. I welcomed them into my infinite heart, alongside the ghosts, the shadows, the ache I'd always carry. I made their strength mine, a part of me. My inspiration. My voice. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

16 " It was a card, stamped with a mermaid in the center, colored and adorned with glittery starfish stickers and hand-drawn reeds in green and yellow. Inside, edged along the bottom in blue-green waves and encircled with a heart, he'd written a note:

Dear Elyse,
Thank you for being my new friend.
And liking mermaids.
And marrying my brother.
Your new friend,
Sebastian Kane
P.S. Are you a mermaid? Yes or No. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

17 " Sometimes life's most important moments are quiet, a decision made quick and calm. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

18 " Not everybody gets a happy ending, however deserved it may be. Life had been doing its damnedest to teach me that, starting with my first saltwater breath, the day my mother died at sea.

But that didn't mean we were giving up. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

19 " His pink fingers found the shell around my neck, touched it softly. He lifted it and saw the scar. His brow furrowed.

He whispered, "Is your voice inside the shell?"

I smiled a little sadly.

"That's okay," he said. "We don't have to talk to be friends. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids

20 " There's peace in acceptance. Death in it, always. Inevitable. With the acceptance of one thing comes the dying of another: a new belief, a relationship. An ideal, a plan, a what-if. Assumptions. A path. A song. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Summer of Chasing Mermaids