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Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
Writer
San Rafael
California
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Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.
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Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.
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Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.
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You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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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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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.
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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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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.
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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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We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.
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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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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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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 know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.
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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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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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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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