Sara Zarr Quotes - Page 3

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• Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

  Sara Zarr

  People, Perfect, Romance

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• My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.

  Sara Zarr

  Jobs, Writing, Character

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Struggle, Awful, Obscure

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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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  Christian, Different, Sincere

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• 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.

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  Opportunity, Interesting, Suspense

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Senior, Sorry, Real

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

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Country, Book, Editors

  "Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr" by Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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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.

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  Mean, Light, Feel Good

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• I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

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  Thinking, Years, People

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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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  Special, Matter, Remember

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

  Sara Zarr

  San Francisco, Desire

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• I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. "Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot."He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him.

  Sara Zarr

  Love, Dad, Night

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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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  Book, Character, Growth

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• The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.

  Sara Zarr

  Bye, Connections, Would Be

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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.

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  Love You, Love Life, Love Is

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• I don’t want these memories to become slippery, to just disappear into the thin air of life the way most things seem to. I want them to stick – even the bad ones – so I repeat them often.

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  Memories, Air, Want

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

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  Waiting, Sitting, Kind

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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?

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  Sorry, Feet, Forgiving

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

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• It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once and for all that everything I've believed my whole life is true, and real. Or, not even everything. Not even half. Just the part about someone or something bigger than us who doesn't lose track. I want to believe the stories, that there really is someone who would search the whole mountainside just to find that one lost thing that he loves, and bring it home.

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  Stars, Real, Believe

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• It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

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  Tragedy, Diagrams

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• We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

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  Real, Thinking, Miracle

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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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  Thinking, Waiting, Miracle

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Girl, Sexy, Fall

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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.

  Sara Zarr

  Cells, Voice, Gone

  Sara Zarr (2008). “Sweethearts”, p.151, Hachette UK

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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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