Sara Zarr Quotes

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy that I've had experiences that have reminded me that most exciting things might not feel so exciting later, and the most disappointing things might not be so disappointing later, either.

Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.

I look forward and see myself look back.

But all years are stupid. It's only when they're over that they become interesting.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way of events and we are forever picking out constellations from it to fit who and where we are.

We are not apt to think of the importance of events as they transpire with us, but we feel the importance of them afterwards.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

Four years and everything was the same, except me.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

Memory is the fourth dimension to any landscape.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

An outgrowth of having a long career is that I have a lot of interesting things around that I get to revisit, and someday get to the place where they become something that I want to do next.