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Deb Caletti Inspirational Quotes (121)

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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
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I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
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You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
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Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
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I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.
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This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.
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It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
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I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
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Funny the only two times we use the phrase seeing someone are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.
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Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.
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I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
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I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.
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Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.
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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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