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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Mistake
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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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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.
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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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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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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.
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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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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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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 job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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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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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 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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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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