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Time Quotes by Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti writes that love is a single‑person treasure, and that we need quiet moments to replay memories before sharing them. She calls falling in love a magical time that feels fresh and bright. She also reminds us that the past is a safe place to visit, but not to stay forever.

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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.

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Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

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“The past is a good place for the past.”

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“Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are…

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“We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I…

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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…

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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…

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“It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone…

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I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to…

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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…

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“Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you’ve gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.”

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You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I…

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Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how…

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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…

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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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“Ah. Falling in love is such a magical time." "We just met, Damian. I'm not in love." Damian laughs. "I am going…

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It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place.…

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“But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay…

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What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago,…

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Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to…

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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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“I confess I had a Child of Divorce Reunion Fantasy Number One Thousand, where I for a moment imagined my father finding…

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“But something had already been set in motion, and I wonder and wonder how things would have been if I'd just let…

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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…

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This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too…

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“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, even 80 percent. A relationship—it shouldn't be too small or too tight…

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“What they say is, life goes on, and that is mostly true. The mail is delivered and the Christmas lights go up…

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“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many…

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You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could…

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Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship…

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“I’ve always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it…

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“There are those moments, probably few in a life, where before and after split off from each other forevermore in your mind.”

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“It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words,…

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A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other…

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You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have…

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When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in…

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“What should never be forgotten is this: Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as…

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“We put God in front of terrifying things, and we knocked three times, and we took drugs and shopped too much and…

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