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People Quotes by Deb Caletti

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That's what people do who love you—they hold you close even when you feel unlovable. She writes that we often want more from ourselves and from others, and that opening our eyes to truth can push us to act. She also mentions that a chronic desire to save people can spread like a feeling.

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Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.

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People are secretive when they have secrets.

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The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

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“You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.”

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Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.

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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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Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else.…

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You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove…

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If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was…

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That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

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Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around…

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You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those…

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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…

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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that…

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This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could…

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This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the…

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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…

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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…

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People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts,…

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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…

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Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then…

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In the two months I had also dated Justin Fellowes, this guy in my Spanish class, though after three weeks we decided…

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I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I…

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We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority…

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We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But…

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We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own…

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I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end,…

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so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about…

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I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth…

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You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand…

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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…

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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to…

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If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life.…

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Onyx is angry," Damian says. "Onyx has a right to be angry. You've got to remember, for many elephants, their life is…

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But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw…

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This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it…

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People always ask, "How do you get in the mind of the teen reader?" I think all human beings have these common…

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“Unconditional love is like a country of two with no laws and no government. Which is all fine if everyone is peaceful…

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At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel…

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The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood…

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“You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.”

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“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.”

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so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've…