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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Conflicted
Sincere
Active
Christian
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Come
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Always

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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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. . .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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
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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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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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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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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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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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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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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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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the past only had whatever power you gave it life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.
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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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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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