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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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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
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San Rafael
California
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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
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What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.
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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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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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It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.
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Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
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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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My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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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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Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.
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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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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've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.
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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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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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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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