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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
Sincere
Active
Christian
Place
Come
Different
Always
Things
Conflicted

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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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I understand that you can never have the whole picture inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
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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 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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When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
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Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.
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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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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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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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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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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'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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