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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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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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There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
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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 don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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Because love, love never finishes.
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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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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 wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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 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.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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Try a little tenderness.
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