Sara Zarr Quotes

Sara Zarr is an American writer. She was raised in San Francisco, and now lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband. Her first novel, Story of a Girl, was a 2007 National Book Award finalist. She has subsequently had six novels published. Wikipedia

✵ 3. October 1970

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Story of a Girl

Story of a Girl

Sara Zarr

Story of a Girl

Story of a Girl

Sara Zarr

Sara Zarr: 28 quotes2 likes

Famous Sara Zarr Quotes

“Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands.”

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

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

Source: Sweethearts

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

Source: How to Save a Life

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

“You were never what I wanted to forget.”

Source: Sweethearts

Sara Zarr Quotes about life

“My whole life has been one big broken promise.”

Source: How to Save a Life

“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.”

Source: How to Save a Life

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

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

Source: How to Save a Life

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

Source: How to Save a Life

Sara Zarr Quotes

“When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”

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

Source: Sweethearts

“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.”

Sara Zarr book Story of a Girl

Source: Story of a Girl

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

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

Source: How to Save a Life

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

“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.”

Sara Zarr book Story of a Girl

Source: Story of a Girl

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

“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.”

Source: How to Save a Life

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

Source: Once Was Lost

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

Source: How to Save a Life

“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.”

Source: Sweethearts

“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.”

Source: How to Save a Life

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

Source: Sweethearts

“Try a little tenderness…”

Source: How to Save a Life

“Live in the present. Take care of the relationships in front of you now. Most friendships have a natural life, and when they've lived that out, you'll know.”

Source: Roomies

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