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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Swim
Straight
Sometimes

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I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
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It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It’s just like Animal Planet, only we’ve got Cover Girl and Victoria’s Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom’s Half-Yearly Sale.
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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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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet 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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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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Funny the only two times we use the phrase seeing someone are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.
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... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
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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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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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Are you getting your period? She narrows her eyes. No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period. Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.
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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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Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
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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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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.
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Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
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I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
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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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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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