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A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
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Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.
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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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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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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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But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
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Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.
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You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.
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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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To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
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she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do
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All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.
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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 would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
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Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.
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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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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
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