Sara Ackerman > Quotes

“Don't believe everything you hear about yourself. It tends to be false.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“Maybe that was the secret to dying—to live a life with so much heart that, when you go, you are never really gone.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Codebreaker's Secret

“When you think all is lost and you’re about to give up, when you want more than anything to turn around and quit, don’t. Keep going.” He paused for effect in the way he always did before he was about to reveal some great discovery. “That’s when the magic happens.”
― Sara Ackerman, Red Sky Over Hawaii

“When it came down to man versus nature, nature usually won.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“But here’s the catch—all life is interconnected, so you have to factor in what’s good for the whole. What you want may not be what the world needs at any given moment, and if that’s the case, your want may not happen. Better to step aside and allow.”
― Sara Ackerman, Red Sky Over Hawaii

“Old people were like icebergs, she realized. All you saw was the tip, but beneath the surface there was this long and full life lived.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“Anyone could see half her heart was missing.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“Don't you know that hope is the last thing ever lost. A proverb to live by if there ever were one.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“Old people rule...
They know things. They've lived. There's no bullshit.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“He did better than most. But there’s a fine line between want and need, and hope and trust. If we trust, we are given what we need, because we know that all things are possible.”
― Sara Ackerman, Red Sky Over Hawaii

“The more you loved something, the more you hurt when you lost it.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“You are the one that kept me up at night. You are the one I had to make it home for.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“Suddenly she wasn't just doing this for her father and herself, but for a whole ocean of young girls with big dreams.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“But there’s a fine line between want and need, and hope and trust. If we trust, we are given what we need, because we know that all things are possible.”
― Sara Ackerman, Red Sky Over Hawaii

“Sometimes the smallest things can be the scariest.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“In Daisy’s experience”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“See you on the other side Rascal. Bulldog over and out.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“Parents think they know what’s best for us. They either want us to become them, or to become a reflection of their broken dreams.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Codebreaker's Secret

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― Sara Ackerman, The Shark House

“Don’t believe everything you hear about yourself. It tends to be false.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“Always assume the best, and the forces of nature will conspire to make it happen,”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“For as long as she could remember, the stars had been a connection to something greater.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“There were eight main islands: Ni‘ihau, Kaua‘i, O‘ahu, Moloka‘i, Lana‘i, Maui, Kaho‘olawe, and Hawai‘i.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“The true agony of death was left to the living.”
― Sara Ackerman, Radar Girls

“In the end, we remember those slices of time where we feel the most—love, anguish, joy, sorrow, fright. I don’t care what the reason. Maybe it was the day you first realized you were mortal or that first moment you saw love walk in the door. Or that no matter how many years passed, you would still be that girl, the barefoot one with long brown hair and a penny in her pocket. Maybe it was when you suddenly realized you had everything to lose and you were too blind to notice. What matters most is what lives in your heart, and if there is one thing I know, it is this: love is the only way. And magic.”
― Sara Ackerman, Red Sky Over Hawaii

“Sometimes we have to leave a place before we understand how much it means to us. And Hawai‘i gets under your skin. I know that much.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Codebreaker's Secret

“... faith was what you hung on to when there was no other option. It was the only way forward.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“They say the reason for time is so everything doesn’t happen at once. Meaning, if all our dreams came true at the same time, we wouldn’t be able to appreciate them.”
― Sara Ackerman, Red Sky Over Hawaii

“In her eyes, cartography was a form of magic. That someone could take the world, with all its mountains and valleys and deserts and tundra and rivers and oceans, and transfer that onto a piece of paper while keeping proportions true, made her head swim.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Uncharted Flight of Olivia West

“My father used to say that important encounters were planned out by heaven and if you were observant enough, you could see them plain as day.”
― Sara Ackerman, The Lieutenant's Nurse