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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
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Cleveland
Ohio
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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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
What brings two people together anyway?
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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
Sara Zarr
Try a little tenderness.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.
Sara Zarr
It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
Sara Zarr
Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr
My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
Sara Zarr
We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
Sara Zarr
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.
Sara Zarr