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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Done
Forgetting
Remembrance
Remembering
Begin
Memories
Forget
Moments
Remember

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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
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What brings two people together anyway?
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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot.He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him.
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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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I understand that you can never have the whole picture inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
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It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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Try a little tenderness.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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