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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Personal
Persons
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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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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Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
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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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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 like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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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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Try a little tenderness.
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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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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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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 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.
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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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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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