Top 70 Sara Zarr Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Try a little tenderness...”

— Sara Zarr

2. “Some people come into your life and leave a mark.”

— Sara Zarr

3. “In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.”

— Sara Zarr

4. “When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”

— Sara Zarr

5. “Remember that no matter where I am or what I’m doing I’ve got a special place inside me that’s all for you. It’s been there since the day we met.”

— Sara Zarr

6. “There are so many pieces to grief. Sad pieces, angry pieces, guilty pieces, pieces of regret, and pieces that are a certain kind of pain that doesn’t even have a word.”

— Sara Zarr

7. “And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.”

— Sara Zarr

8. “That’s how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don’t have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.”

— Sara Zarr

9. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

10. “Sometimes you want to hear your own mother’s voice.”

— Sara Zarr

11. “No one measures a life in weeks and days. You measure life in years and by the things that happen to you.”

— Sara Zarr

12. “The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.”

— Sara Zarr

13. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

14. “I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ and being so overwhelmed with emotion.”

— Sara Zarr

15. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

16. “Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.”

— Sara Zarr

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

— Sara Zarr

18. “Sitting and waiting for something to happen was the worst kind of torture.”

— Sara Zarr

19. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

20. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

21. “Your greatest creation is your creative life. It’s all in your hands.”

— Sara Zarr

22. “It’s like a Venn diagram of tragedy.”

— Sara Zarr

23. “Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.”

— Sara Zarr

24. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

Featured in: Romance Quotes

25. “Katy skipped over, her low-rise jeans threatening to fall off her skinny hips. With some girls, that was a sexy look. With Katy, it made you nervous.”

— Sara Zarr

26. “My whole life has been one big broken promise.”

— Sara Zarr

27. “My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.”

— Sara Zarr

28. “What brings two people together anyway?”

— Sara Zarr

29. “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, uncertainty, fear.”

— Sara Zarr

30. “A know a place called New Beginnings, but I don’t think it works quite like that. You can’t just erase everything that came before.”

— Sara Zarr

31. “It’s a jagged thing in my throat, how much I miss her.”

— Sara Zarr

32. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

33. “I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.”

— Sara Zarr

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

— Sara Zarr

35. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

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

— Sara Zarr

37. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

38. “I wonder how you’re supposed to know the exact moment when there’s no more hope.”

— Sara Zarr

39. “I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.”

— Sara Zarr

40. “The Lord doesn’t give a person more than he knows they can bear.”

— Sara Zarr

41. “I do have a little bit more confidence in – or at least familiarity with – my process. For example, when it feels like it’s going badly or that I’m lost, I know I’ll eventually find my way because I’ve been through it before. But writing itself is still hard.”

— Sara Zarr

42. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

43. “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

44. “The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything he’d done for me and what we’d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.”

— Sara Zarr

45. “I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn’t room for what I wanted to write.”

— Sara Zarr

46. “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.”

— Sara Zarr

47. “It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don’t spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.”

— Sara Zarr

48. “I didn’t ‘decide’ to write YA, per se. But every time I thought of a story, it featured characters 15, 16, 17.”

— Sara Zarr

49. “I’m not really a plot writer – I’m more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.”

— Sara Zarr

50. “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.”

— Sara Zarr