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Deb Caletti (born June 16, 1963) is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. Caletti is a National Book Award finalist, as well as the recipient of other numerous awards including the PEN USA finalist award, the Washington State Book Award, and SLJ Best Book award. Caletti's books feature the Pacific Northwest, and her young adult work is popular for tackling difficult issues typically reserved for adult fiction. Her first adult fiction novel, He's Gone, was published by Random House in 2013 and was followed by her second book for adults, The Secrets She Keeps in 2015.

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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.

Book, Get Well, Pulp, Time Heals, Warp

I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.

Desperation, Felt, Flying, Kind, Trying

If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl in and the sky turns black and the sea rages and the boat is lost.

Boat, Clouds, Fate, Love Is, Sea, Worst

But then there are the van Goghs and Hemingways and Mozarts, those who feel a hunger so deep, so far down, that greatness lies there too, nestled somewhere within it. Those who get their inner voice and direction from the cool mysterious insides of the moon, and not from the earth like the rest of us.

Down, Earth, Greatness, Lying, Moon, Mysterious

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

Eye, Eyes, Hurt, Lovely

What Dino spent most of his time doing was hiring and firing new managers. Since he ditched William Tiero three-plus years ago, he just want through these poor guys like you go through a bag of M&M's when you've got your period. Consume, and on the the next.

Bag, Consume, Guy, Hiring, Three, Years

Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

Although, Driving, Hills, Snow, Things, Worry

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.

Percent, Perfect, Settle, Space, Tight, Waiting

I put the guitar back in the case. I can't even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there's a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.

Back, Eggs, Guitar, Look, Oil

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.

Become, Feeling, Feelings, Knowing, Littles, Sense

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat

Heart, My Heart, Spoken, Throat

Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

Crazy, Gut, Loss, Pain, Rejection, Wrenching

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

Hard, Know, People, Snap, Sometimes, Telling The Truth

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

Forget, Has Beens, Part, True

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Button, Buttons, Choose, Humans, Pause, Sometimes

No, Mom. I said fine. " "It's just your tone. " Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

Mom, Nasty, Tone, Yes

Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you dont even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menues without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something ve-ry expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.

Expensive, Interesting, Kissing, Mean, Menues, Relative

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Cooking, Guy, Like, Mahal, Men, Taj

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

Everything, Feels, Like, Maybe, Sometimes, Taken

I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

Embarrassment, Fifteen, Giving, Kept, Parental, Reason

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