Deb Caletti Quotes
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Deb Caletti Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right ... We can make it the whole way, Crick.
The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you.
It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.
Rejection, though
it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.
Usually you just walk and walk among people who are not of your tribe, and then suddenly, there you are, in a place that feels familiar and known.
A person is never as quiet as they seem, we are thickly layered page lying upon page behind simple covers.
..They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.
It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.
I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days ... No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.
I don't stop to imagine home and the people in it, because this is so far from home, I am another person entirely.
I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.
Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.
We don't want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you'll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.
Endings and beginnings sit so close to each other that it's sometimes impossible to tell which is which.
Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.
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.
You knew me. You KNOW me. I can't imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.
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.
Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.
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.
Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.
Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.'
So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.
So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.
My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.
I mean it's purposeful, even if we don't realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind ... .
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
The night smelled like blackberry leaves and the ocean's nearness, something sweet and deep and full.
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love
it's less shiny than solid and simple.
it's less shiny than solid and simple.
I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.
I understand he's not guilty of anything except maybe loving too much. This boy, he is just ... mine.
But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.
It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
Dread begins to inch in. No. Dread isn't one of those subtle emotions. It moves in and takes over, and then it drips and hands, like Spanish moss.
We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I had to move a mountain or something.
I don't want her in my car." says Jenna.
I don't want her in my life." says Michael.
I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello.
I don't want her in my life." says Michael.
I hope she chokes on her fucking Frappuccino." says Akello.
One thing you can say about daughters and mothers - like it or not, they know the truth about each other.
I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.
It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word ...
Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.
All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. It's kind of self-therapy.
You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.
He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.