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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
People
Wouldn
Whatever
Perfect
Family
Comes
Work
Restricted
Way
Romance
Love
Exist

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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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That's how life feels to me. Everyone is doing it everyone knows how. To live and be who they are and find a place, find a moment. I'm still waiting.
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
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I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.
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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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Try a little tenderness.
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What brings two people together anyway?
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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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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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The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.
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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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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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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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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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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