Sara Zarr Quotes

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.

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.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

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.

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.

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.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

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.

he's a story i want to know from page one

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

Because love, love never finishes.

don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

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.

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.

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.

I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.

No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.

It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.

I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.

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

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.

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

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.

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.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.

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

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

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.

My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.

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.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

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.

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.

I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

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.

I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork.

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.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

Some people come into your life and leave a mark.

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

Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

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.