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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
Much
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Lived
Instead
Head
Real

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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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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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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 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'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.
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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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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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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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Try a little tenderness.
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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 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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Ethan couldn’t possibly understand it, what Cameron and I meant to each other and how different it was from anything like a romance or a crush.
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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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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
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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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