Deb Caletti - Wanted Quotes

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Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

Deb Caletti

Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

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A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

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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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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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