Sara Zarr Quotes

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

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...

The doorbell rang during dinner. Alan got up to answer, saying, If it's the missionaries I might let them in. I'm too tired to put up a fight.

And a pencil-line drawing of a house. And under a piece of Scotch tape a ring, just a cheap ring with a blue glass stone., it read.

The sight of them (her friends) let a little air into her soul.

Remember that time we got snowed in at school? Everyone had to wait for their parents to get them, but our parents didn't come.God, I said, I'd forgotten. Why can't I remember any of this stuff withou...

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

And I’ll dream about living there one day myself, about boats and bicycles and water, and a dog running next to me on the road, in the green, green afternoon light.

It's not words, so much, just my mind going blank and thoughts reaching up up up, me wishing I could climb through the ceiling and over the stars until I can find God, really see God, and know once an...

We should just get a giant bottle of bargain vodka or something, Gil said, pushing his gorilla mask back on his head.Not classy, Steph said. This is a special night, not a frat party.Special? Classy??...

At the corner of K street and Fourth Avenue, I slowed down to let a pedestrian cross, a boy around my age. Maybe because he was so tall or maybe because of the way he walked-with a determined leaving...

His voice just shot through me. It’s amazing, the things your body will do just when you don’t want them to: heart speeding up, fingers aching. I’d always liked his voice, low and laid-back, the kind...

You don't get anything without giving up something.

You used to not give a damn about anything, but that was because you were brave, not cynical. You used to have so much courage.

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 t...

I can be human to strangers and coworkers, just not to the people who actually care about me.

I can't believe this crap. Jolly ranchers? Gummy worms? Katy rifled through the pile of candy she'd dumped onto Steph's floor. Where's the chocolate? Where's the candy corn?I Jolly Rangers, Steph sai...

The past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

Because every thought she had, everything she observed around her, every conversation, every experience, everything that made her laugh - she imagined telling him, or him watching. She wanted herself,...

You didn't call me last night.Was I supposed to?He looked down. Just figured now that you had my number...Kept my phone on all night, just in case. He laughed. I started to worry that it didn't work....