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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Mother
Sometimes

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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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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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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 wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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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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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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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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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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
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the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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Because love, love never finishes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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