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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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San Rafael
California
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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.
Deb Caletti
Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
Deb Caletti
I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?
Deb Caletti
It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.
Deb Caletti
she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do
Deb Caletti
I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.
Deb Caletti
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
But my apology was a thousand apologies.
Deb Caletti
I may be nervous, I say. Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant. Sebastian says.
Deb Caletti
You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.
Deb Caletti
My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
Deb Caletti