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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Real
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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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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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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 a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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