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It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.
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Wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
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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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I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.
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Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
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We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.
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I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.
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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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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 don't know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.
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You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.
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Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.
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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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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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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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Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.
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We are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
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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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It's hard to see clearly when your eyes are squinched tight out of fear.
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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 was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.
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Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
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We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.
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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you're not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don't have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.
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Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
Deb Caletti
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Born:
June 16, 1963
(age 60)
Bio:
Deb Caletti is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction.
Known for:
Honey, baby, sweetheart (2004)
The Nature of Jade (2007)
The Last Forever (2013)
The Secret Life of Prince Charming (2009)
He's Gone: A Novel (2013)
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