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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
Writer
San Rafael
California
Self
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Kind
Books
Something
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.
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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.
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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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So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.
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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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The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.
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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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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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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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Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.
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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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Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
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The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.
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Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
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When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.
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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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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
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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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