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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
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Cleveland
Ohio
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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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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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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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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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