Quote

Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.

Sara Zarr

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Inside
Special
Since
Place
Remember
Matter
Mets

More quotes by Sara Zarr

Image
I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
Sara Zarr
Image
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.
Sara Zarr
Image
And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.
Sara Zarr
Image
Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
Sara Zarr
Image
The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.
Sara Zarr
Image
I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.
Sara Zarr
Image
Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
Sara Zarr
Image
In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.
Sara Zarr
Image
don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
Sara Zarr
Image
I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
Sara Zarr
Image
It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
Sara Zarr
Image
I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
Sara Zarr
Image
Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.
Sara Zarr
Image
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
Sara Zarr
Image
Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
Sara Zarr
Image
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
Sara Zarr
Image
I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
Sara Zarr
Image
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.
Sara Zarr
Image
I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.
Sara Zarr
Image
It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
Sara Zarr