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• 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.

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  Lying, Moon, Greatness

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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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 telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.

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  Grief, People, Upset

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

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• And if you could make a choice, then why not pick happiness?

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  Choices, Why Not, Picks

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.218, Simon and Schuster

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• But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

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  Attitude, Water, Desert

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• Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.

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  Thinking, Volcanoes, Trying

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• It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of both creepy and wonderful when you stop to think about it. And it makes you realize there's absolutely no way to avoid change. You can sit there and cross your arms and refuse it, but underneath you, things are still spinning away.

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  Life, Moving, Thinking

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

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  Holiday, Kids, Parent

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• You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd have matched us up either. I'm not sure why we even stuck, except that we each probably find the other to be entertaining...Besides I feel like it was a personal mission of mine to broaden Melanie's world, though I think she felt the same for me.

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  Thinking, Doubt, Together

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• Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

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  Queens, Book, Adults

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• I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

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  Vow, Steadiness

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• 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.

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  Guitar, Eggs, Oil

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

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• I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.

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  Mom, Ideas, Waiting

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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 the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.

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  Believe, Fate, Godly

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• Once an asshole, always an asshole.

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  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Summer, Quiet People, Wonderful

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.

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  Beautiful, Wall, Real

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Wild Roses”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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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 go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

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  Mom, Fun, Sibling

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• Each story, good and bad, short or long-from that trip to the mall when you saw Santa, to a long, bad illness-they are all a line or a paragraph in our own life manuscript. Two thirds of the way through, even, and it all won't necessarily make sense, but at the end there'll be a beautiful whole, where every sentence of every chapter fits.

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  Beautiful, Two, Long

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

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  Real, School, Rocks

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

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  Heart, Rope, Sometimes

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• ...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

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  Forever, Enough, Hard

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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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 that of a human in a war-torn country. Ravaged homes, killed relatives, separation," Damian says. Here's another thing I've learned over two months--every elephants here has a sad story. Every captive elephant's story is one of loss and separation. Something to remember every time you see happy people getting elephant rides.

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  Country, War, Home

  Deb Caletti (2010). “Nature of Jade”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• The most true-love words are not the ones that grasp and hold and bind you, twisting you both up together in some black dance. No, they are ones that leave you free to stand alone on your own solid ground, leave him to do the same, a tender space between you.

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  Space, Black, Together

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Love, Lying, Book

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

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• The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

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  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

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