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Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Useless
Powerful
Hope
Thing

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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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All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
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I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
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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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I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.
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There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.
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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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It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.
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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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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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Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
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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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she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do
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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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I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.
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Love. She looked at me with those blue eyes. Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.
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