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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
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Cleveland
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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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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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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
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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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I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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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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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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 hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
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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 books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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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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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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In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.
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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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