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. Sara Zarr More Quotes by Sara Zarr More Quotes From Sara Zarr You were never what I wanted to forget. Sara Zarr wanted forget 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. Sara Zarr smart heart teacher When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. Sara Zarr remembrance done memories I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them. Sara Zarr pieces want two The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost. Sara Zarr loyalty done together 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. Sara Zarr air want memories 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 connections would-be bye 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 voice cells gone 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. Sara Zarr your-boyfriend differences people This was a memory I wanted to keep, whole, and recall again and again. When I was fifty years old I wanted to remember this moment on the porch, holding hands with Cameron while he shared himself with me. I didn’t want it to be something on the fringes of my memory like so many other things about Cameron and myself. Sara Zarr memories hands years What brings two people together anyway? Sara Zarr together two people 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. Sara Zarr crush romance different I lived too much in my head instead of the real world. Sara Zarr too-much real world I didn't 'decide' to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17. Sara Zarr stories writing character I don't like to do too much psychological research because it might turn a character into a patchwork. Sara Zarr research might character I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion. Sara Zarr listening winter school I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice. Sara Zarr voice writing class I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. Sara Zarr plot events character The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please. Sara Zarr difficult writing trying 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 romance perfect people
