Sara Zarr
Sara Zarr
Sara Zarris 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 is also the author of Sweethearts and Once Was Lost. All three are published by Little, Brown...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth3 October 1970
CountryUnited States of America
differences people your-boyfriend
we had each other. I never needed anyone else. That’s the difference between you and me. You need all these people around you. Your friends, your boyfriend, everyone. Every single person has to like you. I only ever needed one person. Only ever needed you.
bye would-be way
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.
journey trying way
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.
should-have want needs
Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.
wonder moments knows
I wonder how you're supposed to know the exact moment when there's no more hope.
crush romance different
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.
tragedy diagrams
It's like a Venn diagram of tragedy.
good-life surprise made
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.
san-francisco desire
I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.
love-is unfinished-business color
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.
mistake new-you new-places
don’t mistake a new place for a new you.
oil anxiety routine
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.
growing-up father school
My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.
new-beginnings thinking erase
A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don't think it works quite like that. You can't just erase everything that came before.