But my apology was a thousand apologies.
Deb CalettiAnother person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t.
People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.
We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.
Deb CalettiFear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
Deb CalettiSometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.
Deb CalettiTags: love build-walls
A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks.
Deb CalettiA lot of life is just surviving what happens.
Deb CalettiMaybe 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.
Deb CalettiTags: inspirational
Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
Deb CalettiTags: growing-up
You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
Deb CalettiTags: self-worth
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