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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
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Mess
Clean
Sometimes

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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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so what brings you to the doctor today? hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people i know about that. i've got it too. maybe it's catching. not catching enough
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.
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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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Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.
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Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
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Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.
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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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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
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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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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.
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Cars are all jammed up all along the road and a light turns red and someone honks. In every one of those cars there is a story or a hundred stories. For every light on in al of those huge city buildings there is a story. No one knows what I am about to face and no one knows my story and neither do I right then.
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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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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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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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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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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.
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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.
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