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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.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Things
Ones
Slippery
Life
Seem
Repeat
Memories
Thin
Often
Repeats
Become
Stick
Seems
Sticks
Even
Disappear
Way
Air

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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 didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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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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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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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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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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.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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What brings two people together anyway?
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