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the past only had whatever power you gave it life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Past
Power
Wanted
Different
Made
Gave
Something
Happen
Make
Whatever
Life
Happens

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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
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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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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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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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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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Because love, love never finishes.
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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.
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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.
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