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The Book of Broken Hearts QUOTES

The Book of Broken Hearts QUOTES

1 " Family tragedies had a way of smashing everything apart and then gluing it all back together. The problem was no one ever knew how long the glue would hold. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

2 " But I knew he wouldn't kiss me. Not tonight. Not like this. There was too much between us now, all the words and near misses. All the potential, the alternate futures that would stretch out before us in an unending spiral, all built on what happened in this moment. I held his fiery gaze and remembered the five-oh, the half-and-half, the promises I'd whispered to myself in the dawn light.

I might lose all my memories one day, but that wouldn't keep me from making them. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

3 " You ask me why I’m nice to you,” he said. “Why, why, why. But you don’t ask me stuff that matters. Who I am or where I been. What I see when I look at you. What I want. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

4 " They say you can never step into the same river twice. And maybe that's how it was for Papi now, memories shifting and re-forming soundlessly beneath him while the rest of us sat on the shore and watched. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

5 " Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

6 " There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

7 " It seemed everything that had ever lived and died in this world had passed through here, had left its indelible imprint. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

8 " For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

9 " Don't settle for stuff. That's pretty much the only thing I learned in life. You see something, some chance for something great, you take it. You grab your keys and jump on your bike and go, no regrets. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

10 " No matter how long you waited, no matter how hard you wished, no matter how much you missed the past, time marched forward. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

11 " Don't settle, okay? Not for anything. I mean it. You only get this one chance at life, far as I know. Take it. Even if its not with me. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

12 " That was the thing about pictures. No matter how beautiful, they couldn't capture the truly felt parts of a moment. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

13 " Sometimes, a sigh was all the fight you had left. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

14 " I was falling in love.
I am losing my father.
With Emilio Vargas.
To smoke and shadow.
My heart fluttered.
My heart aches.
To feel it.
To deny it.
Life.
Death.
Possibilities.
Endings "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

15 " I gave him my own sexy raised eyebrow, because unlike Emilio, I knew how to do that shit correct. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

16 " I took a deep breath, let it out slowly, watched it settle against Emilio's lips. He shivered and whispered my name, and in that moment I knew the whole truth. I was falling in love. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

17 " There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are. One moment. Then another. What you did with that moment was up to you. No regrets. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

18 " My sisters were wrong to name the Varga boys in the oath. Names had nothing to do with it. All boys were destined to break your heart. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

19 " Emilio smiled, and it was like, stubble, dimples, scar. Damn. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts

20 " Are you for real?' I whispered against his lips. 'Yes or no.'
'You're killing me, princesa.' His words slid into my mouth as our bodies pressed together. "

― Sarah Ockler , The Book of Broken Hearts