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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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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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San Rafael
California
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The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.
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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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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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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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My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
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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.
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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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Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.
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Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.
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The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.
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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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...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.
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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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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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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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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.
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