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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
Happen
Wonderful
Happens
Things
Time
People
Summer

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I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
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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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If you look up charming in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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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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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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... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
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I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.
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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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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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I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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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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I vow... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.
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