Sara Zarr Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Mean, Different, Way

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• Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

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  Hands, Sometimes, Rescue

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Buttons, Want, Faces

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• My whole life has been one big broken promise.

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  Broken, Rejection, Promise

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

  Sara Zarr

  Teacher, Smart, Heart

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Love Is, Unfinished Business, Color

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.157, Hachette UK

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• I grew up in San Francisco in the 1970s. We were part of a church that belonged to the California Jesus movement.

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  Jesus, California, San Francisco

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• I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

  Sara Zarr

  San Francisco, Desire

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• It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew?

  Sara Zarr

  Sorry, Feet, Forgiving

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Story of a Girl”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• Don't ask me how I am,' I blurt. 'Please.' I want to keep feeling good. Just because the lights are on doesn't mean I have to look.

  Sara Zarr

  Mean, Light, Feel Good

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• I'm remembering how this works. How life doesn't have to be only anxiety about what's gone wrong or could go worng, and complaints about the world around you. How a person you're excited about can remind you there's stuff going on beyond... routine oil changes and homework. Stuff that matters. Stuff to look forward to.

  Sara Zarr

  Oil, Anxiety, Routine

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Love You, Love Life, Love Is

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• I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet here it comes: “It's not too late to change your mind.

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  Evil, Mind, Too Late

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• I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you.

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  Mother, Thinking, Yelling

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Air, Lines, Way

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.68, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.

  Sara Zarr

  Waiting, Sitting, Kind

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• Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

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  Mother, Voice, Want

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.87, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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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  Crush, Romance, Different

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.58, Hachette UK

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• I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

  Sara Zarr

  Real, World, Too Much

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Loyalty, Together, Done

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• Ethan and I are done," I said finally. "I'm sorry." "He was my first boyfriend." "I know." "The only real boyfriend I've had. I'm a senior in high school and he was my only real boyfriend." "I know." "And I won't find another one at Jones Hall. That is guaranteed." "Okay." "This is all very sad and tragic," I said. Alan unwrapped a sleeve of Smarties. "Yet, oddly, you don't seem that upset." "I know.

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  Senior, Sorry, Real

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.148, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Past, Different, Up To You

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Two, Pieces, Want

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• Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely out of your head, and this song becomes the background noise of your entire life, snippets of lyrics and lines of music floating up and then receding, a crazy kind of tide that never stops.

  Sara Zarr

  Song, Memories, Hate

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Thinking, Hands, Cabinets

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