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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
Stills
Still
Find
Live
Waiting
Feels
Moment
Life
Everyone
Moments
Place

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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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It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college.
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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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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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the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.
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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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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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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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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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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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My whole life has been one big broken promise.
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don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.
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I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.
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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.
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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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It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.
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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.
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My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.
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