Deb Caletti - Honey, baby, sweetheart (2004)

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If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

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What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.

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Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

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We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

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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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It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.

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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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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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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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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 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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