“You are beautiful, Lucy. Inside and out. And that hurts, too. It hurts more specifically. More personally.” — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
When my characters are questioning things, it's not me leading up to an answer; it's me asking those same questions and letting… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“Sometimes trust isn’t something you can just choose to do even if it makes sense. All my life the only reliable person,… — Sara Zarr Life Copy Share Image
Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of… — Sara Zarr Family Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with… — Sara Zarr Adolescence Copy Share Image
My parents met in music school, and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
He felt it too, the air between us, the invisible lines that something or someone had drawn to connect us. That's the… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“There are things I want to remember about Cameron Quick that I can't entirely, like the pajamas he wore when he used… — Sara Zarr First place Copy Share Image
“I got this strong feeling of missing him, like he was someone who I loved who had died and gone away, someone… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Can it really be love if we don't talk that much, don't see each other? Isn't love something that happens between people… — Sara Zarr Care Copy Share Image
Other memories stick, no matter how much you wish they wouldn’t. They’re like a song you hate but can’t ever get completely… — Sara Zarr Background noise Copy Share Image
“I'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you as your own soul. Their place… — Sara Zarr Business Copy Share Image
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… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“As much I love to imagine being alone in an orderly lab, I also know you can't stay in there forever and… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“What did it feel like, I wondered, to be kissed like that right out in public? Not like some passionate tongue-wrestling thing,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
“We'd walk home together in the foggy summer night and I'd tell her about sex; the good stuff, like how it could… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars. — Sara Zarr Books Copy Share Image
“I'd been in bed for an hour without falling asleep, going over my day and all the ways I had been weird… — Sara Zarr Falling asleep Copy Share Image
“This is the last time, the girl thought, that she would remember these things. If they floated back to her again, she… — Sara Zarr Forgetting Copy Share Image
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story… — Sara Zarr Character Copy Share Image
