Sara Zarr quotes

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork. (Sara Zarr)
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting. View quote
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There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote. View quote
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I have no desire to go back to San Francisco. View quote
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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. View quote
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The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture. View quote
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My whole life has been one big broken promise. View quote
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Try a little tenderness... View quote
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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. (Sara Zarr)
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. View quote
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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete. View quote
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That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say. View quote
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the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen. View quote
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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. View quote
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You were never what I wanted to forget. View quote
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I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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he's a story i want to know from page one. (Sara Zarr)
I lived too much in my head instead of the real world. View quote
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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. View quote
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I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope. View quote
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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. View quote
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