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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
Voice
Mother
Sometimes
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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
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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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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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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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 don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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Try a little tenderness.
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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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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
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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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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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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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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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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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