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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
Quiet
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Wonderful
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Time
People
Summer

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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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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 can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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A person who says it's your decision is informing you that your decision sucks.
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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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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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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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I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.
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Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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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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But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.
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But my apology was a thousand apologies.
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The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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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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The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.
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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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You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.
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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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