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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.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Every
Drives
Make
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Secret
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Heartbeat

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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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The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.
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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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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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We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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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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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.
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Are you getting your period? She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period. Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.
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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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Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
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But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.
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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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I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
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The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)
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