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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
Ohio
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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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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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I do have a little bit more confidence in - or at least familiarity with - my process. For example, when it feels like it's going badly or that I'm lost, I know I'll eventually find my way because I've been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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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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 lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
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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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. . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.
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No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.
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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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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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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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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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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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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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