Deb Caletti Quotes

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

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.

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.

Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

People are secretive when they have secrets.

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

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

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

They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.

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.

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 kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.

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

We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.

I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.

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

It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.

What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.

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

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

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.

Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.

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

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.

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.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

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

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

Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

Maybe some people just had trouble with forever.