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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
Believe
Believing
Always
Rock
Rocks
Positive
Normal
Adjusted
Attitude
Counted
Wells
Fooled
Well
Sensibility

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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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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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.
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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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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It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.
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Because love, love never finishes.
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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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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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.
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What brings two people together anyway?
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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.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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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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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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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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