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There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Obscure
Awful
Struggle
Beauty
Sure
Getting
Hard

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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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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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Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
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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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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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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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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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