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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
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Everyone
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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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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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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 lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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 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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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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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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Because love, love never finishes.
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