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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
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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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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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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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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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'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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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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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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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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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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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 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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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