Sara Zarr Quotes

This is the last time, the girl thought, that she would remember these things. If they floated back to her again, she would paddle away. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

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...

Wait in the car. He opened the door and started to climb out.Hold on! How long should I give you? What if you don't come back in a certain number of minutes? Should I call the cops?Don't do anything....

Watching Cameron come toward us I could see why Katy used the words hot and gorgeous to describe him-he definitely had nice hair and a long, lean body with broad shoulders, and the eyes. I wondered wh...

We'd need a miracle, he says. A real one. Do you think those happen anymore?

We'd walk home together in the foggy summer night and I'd tell her about sex; the good stuff, like how it could be warm and exciting--it took you away--and the not-so-good things, like how once you sh...

What did it feel like, I wondered, to be kissed like that right out in public? Not like some passionate tongue-wrestling thing, just a kiss to declare: We are each other’s. I’d never been kissed like...

Why do people...we...why do we drag around like life is so awful?' Why did they forget that there was so much to love? He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. 'I guess...because there's a lot tha...

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....

Reigning Miss Predictability, Steph said, proudly representing the fine state of Utah.My inability to be spontaneous is part of my charm.It's true. You wouldn't be you otherwise.

All my life the only reliable person, the one I could count on, the one who hasn't abandoned me, is me.

And, to our collective surprise, it turned out that for a person who doesn't like people, I'm pretty good at this customer service stuff.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

I looked at my hand resting on the shelf of the prop cabinet, thinking of the scars that were there whether anyone could see them or not.

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.

I, Deanna Lambert, belong to no one and no one belongs to me. I don't know what to do.

Is that the destiny of all friendships, no matter how good they are? To die out or fade away? To end?

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 the...

Love.That was the piece that had been missing, way before Prague. That was that piece that had been missing in her life until Will came and made her feel it, for their work together and for the beauty...

Mom always says that doubt is just another way of expressing faith...This is different than doubt. This is something I've never felt before, a total absence of whatever it is that's made me who I am,...