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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

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Remember
Matter
Mets
Inside
Special
Since
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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.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
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No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
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I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
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There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
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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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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
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the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.
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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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.
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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