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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
Would
Life
Note
Notes
Personal
Persons
Person
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself.
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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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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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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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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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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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 don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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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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 lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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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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