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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Mess
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Sometimes
Make

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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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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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Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
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Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.
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Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
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This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.
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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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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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I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.
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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.
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An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
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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.
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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 like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
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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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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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