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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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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.
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
Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
Deb Caletti
There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.
Deb Caletti
Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.
Deb Caletti
Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
Deb Caletti
It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I'v learned how important it is to have both.
Deb Caletti
Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.
Deb Caletti
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
Deb Caletti
What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
Deb Caletti
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti
I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
Deb Caletti
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.
Deb Caletti