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Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
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Make
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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?
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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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If you look up charming in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
Deb Caletti
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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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.
Deb Caletti
Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
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This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.
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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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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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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.
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No, Mom. I said fine. It's just your tone. Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.
Deb Caletti
It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
Deb Caletti
It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
Deb Caletti
I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
Deb Caletti
All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
Deb Caletti
Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
Deb Caletti
You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.
Deb Caletti
I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
Deb Caletti
Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.
Deb Caletti