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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
Whatever
Perfect
Family
Comes
Work
Restricted
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Love
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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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He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the way I remember it.
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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 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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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 don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.
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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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