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You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
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Things
Love
People
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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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I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
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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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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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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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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.
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Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
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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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I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.
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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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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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...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
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No, Mom. I said fine. It's just your tone. Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.
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I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
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Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
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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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