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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Jagged
Throat
Miss
Missing
Thing
Much

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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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Because love, love never finishes.
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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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I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.
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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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Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
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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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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Try a little tenderness.
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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