Sara Zarr Quotes

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.

I couldn't see beyond the walls of our apartment or the few miles between home and school. Every day was about getting through it. Every weekend was about getting back to school, where there could be...

Try a little tenderness ...

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 rem...

You were never what I wanted to forget.

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

Is this okay with you, Jenna? For him to stay here?Yeah, I said. It's good. You have no idea what it takes for him to ask for help.I spent all evening in Alan's office, reading at his desk and keeping...

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

I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. I don't mean the usual faint impression...And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change y...

I think about how there are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark....And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you...I'm talking about the ones who, for...

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.

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...

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.

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 pul...

You have to dig down and find some part of you that doesn't care what people think, doesn't care if it's hard, doesn't care if it hurts, doesn't care if you have to momentarily experience humiliation,...

Death changes things,' I said. 'It happens and you can't stop it. You don't have a choice. This is different.''Life changes things, too.

Now I think miracles are things that happen in stained glass, and on dusty Jerusalem roads thousands of years ago. Not here, not to us. Not when we need them.

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.

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.

My whole life has been one big broken promise.