Sara Zarr Quotes
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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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Don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
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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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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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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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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Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.
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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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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.
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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.
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We'd need a miracle," he says. "A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?
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Because love, love never finishes.