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. Sara Zarr More Quotes by Sara Zarr More Quotes From Sara Zarr The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear. Sara Zarr lord bears giving It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night, and we always loved playing make-believe games. I had a well-primed imagination. I didn't start thinking about writing as a serious pursuit, a career I could have, until after college. Sara Zarr mother writing believe Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old. Sara Zarr crisis identity years Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow. Sara Zarr rejection artist hands 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. Sara Zarr girl book years I don't yell back at my mother. When I'm angry or scared or upset, I don't yell. I stay quiet. I've seen how she is, how she would get with Kent and with me and with other people, life if someone at the pharmacy got in the wrong line or asked too long a question, or if someone on the bus accidentally bumped her. I've watched her my whole life, the way people react to her. It doesn't actually help you get what you want, yelling and being like that. It only makes people think bad of you. Sara Zarr yelling mother thinking 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. Sara Zarr unfinished-business color love-is 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. Sara Zarr lines air way Try a little tenderness. Sara Zarr tenderness littles trying 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. Sara Zarr love-life love-you love-is 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. Sara Zarr feel-good light mean Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture. Sara Zarr kind sitting waiting It came down to the smallest things, really, that a person could do to say I’m sorry, to say it’s okay, to say I forgive you. The tiniest of declarations that built, one on top of the other, until there was something solid beneath your feet. And then… and then. Who knew? Sara Zarr forgiving sorry feet Some people come into your life and leave a mark. Sara Zarr mark people Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want. Sara Zarr should-have want needs don’t mistake a new place for a new you. Sara Zarr new-you new-places mistake 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. Sara Zarr evil mind too-late I have no desire to go back to San Francisco. Sara Zarr san-francisco desire I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him down the hall in bed, propped on pillows, emailing me. "Hon,Enjoyed our gelato date the other night. I just want to say I'm proud of you for a lot of reasons. Also, I've attached a picture of my foot."He's such a weirdo goofball. I love him. Sara Zarr dad love night My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through. Sara Zarr growth character book
