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• Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else.

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  Reminders, Terrible, Thousand

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.

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  Believe, Eye, Creativity

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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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 tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.

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  Space, Perfect, Waiting

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.312, Simon and Schuster

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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 a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

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  Water, People, Abuse

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

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  Strong, Liars, Magic

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

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  Liars, Events, Viewpoints

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.332, Bantam

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• A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

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  Past, Hands, Feel Good

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.

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  Oatmeal, Caviar, Forget

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.

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  Hurt, Eye, Lovely

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

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  Swim, Sometimes, Knows

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.

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  Feelings, Special, Want

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity.

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  Insecurity, Mask, Superiority

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• It's strange, isn't it, how the idea of belonging to someone can sound so great? It can be comforting, the way it makes things decided. We like the thought of being held, until it's too tight. We like that certainty, until it means there's no way out. And we like being his, until we realize we're not ours anymore.

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  Mean, Ideas, Comforting

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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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 princess doesn’t.

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  Princess, Snow, Gathering

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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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 sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

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  People, Leaving, Ironic

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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. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

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  Sad, Disappointment, Loss

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

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  Moving, Secret, Heartbeat

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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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 threads. We struggle with the same things. We desire love and attachment. We have to sort out how much we want to be attached and be independent, how we manage need and being needed and being hurt. These are things that begin when we're - how old? Then in those teen years we start to really feel them.

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  Hurt, Struggle, Independent

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.

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  Mean

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• Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in the Bible on the Ten Commandments thing: Thou shalt not murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not be late to soccer. My father was so pissed, I practically had to get the lightning bolt surgically removed from my back.

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  Soccer, Father, Lightning

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• ... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

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  Looks, Ugly, Action

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• But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

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  Apology, Thinking, Giving

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Syrup, Want, Prison

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Loss, Thinking, Safe

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.271, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Parent, Wanted

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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