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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
Lived
Instead
Head
Real
Much
World

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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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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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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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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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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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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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