Oh my God, look! ” I stand and hold out my hand for Sam to inspect. “Wow, ” he says, taking the glass and holding it up to the sun. “Red is, like, the rarest color there is. You’re totally lucky you even saw it.” I take the deep red, half-dollar-sized piece from him and smile, looking out across the ocean. I told Matt in my letter before we left that I’d find a piece just for him, but now that it’s actually here, sparkling in my hand, I know he’d want me to do something else with it. I raise it above my head and throw it as hard and as far as I can into the sea. Let someone else have a lucky day, Anna. Sam laughs. “Hey, crazy, what’d you do that for? You’ll probably never see something like that again in your entire life.” “Right. But I did see it. And now someone else can, too. Sarah Ockler
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  2. In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars. - Amit Kalantri

  3. You don't need to look at the beauty to feel the love. - Anthony T. Hincks

  4. If you don't look. You can't see. - Anthony T. Hincks

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More Quotes By Sarah Ockler
  1. Weeping is not the same thing as crying. It takes your whole body to weep, and when it's over, you feel like you don't have any bones left to hold you up.

  2. I really don't even know you, and yet, in my life, you are forever entangled; to my history, inextricably bound.

  3. Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's to much gravity on my heart.

  4. Nothing ever really goes away--it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.

  5. Anna, " 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.

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