Deb Caletti quotes - page 5

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving. (Deb Caletti)
Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another. View quote
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Just because it turned out bad, doesn't mean it wasn't meant. View quote
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Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control. View quote
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A relationship could be a place to hide too. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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But my apology was a thousand apologies. View quote
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Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always. View quote
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Once an asshole, always an asshole. View quote
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...forever is hard enough without it beginning now. (Deb Caletti)
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. View quote
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I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. View quote
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The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers. View quote
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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. View quote
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Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter. View quote
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I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power. View quote
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We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better. View quote
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The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. View quote
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Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty. View quote
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You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too. (Deb Caletti)
Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains. View quote
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Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth. View quote
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I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things. View quote
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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. View quote
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