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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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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 lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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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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Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
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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 a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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I'm still going to love you, always. And in the rock-paper-scissors of life, love is rock. fear, anger, everthing else...no contest.
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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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 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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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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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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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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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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