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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Years
Crisis
Identity
Everyone

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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'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 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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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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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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.
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Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.
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