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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.

Sara Zarr

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

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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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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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'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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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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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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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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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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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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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. . .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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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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