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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.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Without
Mean
Different
Way
Life
Directions
Flies
Permission
Control

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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.
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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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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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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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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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 had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
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I understand that you can never have the whole picture inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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Try a little tenderness.
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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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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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