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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.

Sara Zarr

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Active
Christian
Place
Come
Different
Always
Things
Conflicted
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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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I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot.He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him.
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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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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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 don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.
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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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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 a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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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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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.
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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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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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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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Try a little tenderness.
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