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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
Sara Zarr
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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
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Cleveland
Ohio
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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
. . .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.
Sara Zarr
You were never what I wanted to forget.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
Sara Zarr
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
Sara Zarr
It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
Sara Zarr
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
My whole life has been one big broken promise.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
Sara Zarr