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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
Deb Caletti
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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
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San Rafael
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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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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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she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do
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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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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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But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.
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She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
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But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.
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To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
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I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.
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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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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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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.
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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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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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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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It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
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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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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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