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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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Sara Zarr
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 3
Novelist
Writer
Cleveland
Ohio
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Authentic
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Characters
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I tried his cell over and over but he never answered. Then I’d call just to hear his voice on the outgoing message, until eventually that was gone too.
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Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.
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Because love, love never finishes.
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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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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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Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.
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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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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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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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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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It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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You were never what I wanted to forget.
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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.
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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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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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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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