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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 pull you ashore.

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Hands, Sometimes, Rescue

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It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

Sara Zarr

Mean, Different, Way

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The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.

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Giving, Bears, Lord

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Everyone has an identity crisis when they are 16 or 17 years old.

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Years, Identity, Crisis

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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.

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Buttons, Want, Faces

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My whole life has been one big broken promise.

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Broken, Rejection, Promise

Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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and i don't just mean that they change you. a lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. it's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people......i'm talking about the ones who, for whatever reason, are as much a part of you has your own soul. their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business.

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Teacher, Smart, Heart

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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

Love, Dad, Night

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I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

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San Francisco, Desire

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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.

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Girl, Book, Years

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The world was full of beauty. She wanted to grab hold of it and take it down into her bones. Yet always it seemed beyond her grasp. Sometimes only by a little, like now. The thinnest membrane. Usually, though, by miles. She couldn’t expect to be that kind of happy all the time. She knew that. But sometimes you could. Sometimes you should be allowed a tiny bit of joy that should stay with you for more than five minutes. That wasn’t too much to ask. To have a moment like this, and be able to hold on to it. To cross that membrane, and feel alive.

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Joy, Alive, World

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I never had a connection like that to anyone, where every day you think about what you’ll tell them and you wonder what they’re doing, and you know they’re wondering what you’re doing.

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Thinking, Connections, Wonder

Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.52, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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It's a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.

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Missing, Throat

Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.96, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.

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School, Parent, Robots

Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.83, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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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.

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Book, Character, Growth

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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.

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Artist, Hands, Rejection

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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.

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Girl, Book, Stories

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I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If wed had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

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Passion, Discipline, Violin

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When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

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Opportunity, Interesting, Suspense

"Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr". Interview with Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.

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Nice, Book, Reading

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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.

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Country, Book, Editors

"Teen book club: Cat Clarke interviews Sara Zarr" by Cat Clarke, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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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.

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Mother, Believe, Writing

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I'm always in a place that is sincere but conflicted about different things that come with being a Christian and being an active, churchgoing Christian.

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Christian, Different, Sincere

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I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.

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Thinking, Years, People

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Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

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People, Perfect, Romance

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