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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Forget
True
Part

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The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.
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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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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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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.
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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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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.
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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.
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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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We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
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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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The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s pissed off? Why, I’m not sure, Bob, but I’m going to go with ‘Because I Left the Faucet Dripping.’ BEEP. I’m sorry, that’s incorrect. The correct answer is: ‘Because You Happen to Exist.’)
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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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My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.
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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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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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