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I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Always
Rock
Rocks
Positive
Adjusted
Normal
Attitude
Counted
Wells
Fooled
Well
Sensibility
Believe
Believing

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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.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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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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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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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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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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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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.
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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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I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.
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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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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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