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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.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Time
Shadow
Think
Spend
Thinking
Waiting
Lazarus
Everyone
Tomb
Makes
Tombs
Come
Shadows
Without
Changing
Must
Miracle

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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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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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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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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Try a little tenderness.
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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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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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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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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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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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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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