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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Persons
Person
Informing
Sucks
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Decision

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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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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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Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.
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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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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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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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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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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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It's shocking the things we call love.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.
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I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
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