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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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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Stories
Described
Even
Volume
Never
Unto
Possibly
Thousands
Library
Accurately
Word
Shelf
Story
Shelves

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Love. She looked at me with those blue eyes. Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.
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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.
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If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.
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She'd be one of those parents who left a kid behind at a rest stop, driving for miles before she noticed. We'd hear about her on the evening news.
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It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.
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Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.
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Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
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Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
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Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
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Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.
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I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.
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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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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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