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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.

Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 16
Novelist
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San Rafael
California
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Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.
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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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The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.
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Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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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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I may be nervous, I say. Okay, I'm really glad you said that, because I just went to the back room to put on more deodorant. Sebastian says.
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When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.
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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's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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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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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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A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?
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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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Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
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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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Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.
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An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.
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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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