It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“True love, even if just in your head, can make you forget how badly things actually suck.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Ah. Falling in love is such a magical time." "We just met, Damian. I'm not in love." Damian laughs. "I am going… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“True love, the good, the beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“Love was such a delicate thing, requiring tissue-paper touch and the safest place, yet there it was out in the real world,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“My father, Bobby Oates*, said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The romantic element is what the story Essential Maps for the Lost, sort of sits on, but all the stuff below the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint;… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Love is ease, love is comfort, love is support and respect. Love is not punishing or controlling. Love lets you grow and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“You read all kinds of books and see all kinds of movies about the man who is obsessed and devoted, whose focus… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses". — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right...We can make it the whole way, Crick.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“And I make a little vow then, to myself. To not let the backs and forths of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
“Hannah and Kayla are talking without saying anything. Their conversation goes like this: Hannah: Uh-huh. Kayla: It was like, ugh! Hannah: I know. Kayla:… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable. — Deb Caletti Copy Share
If fate is a shape-shifter, then loves is too. It can be, anyway, in its most dangerous form. It´s your best day and then… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny) Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck) — Deb Caletti Copy Share
“You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share
Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
“Good guy. There was efficiency to male language. Those two words were what guys said about other guys that they really respected. Guys they… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
“In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share
“I like those very realistic paintings that look like photographs, or novels that are so much like actual life that you feel understood.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share
This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
“I confess I had a Child of Divorce Reunion Fantasy Number One Thousand, where I for a moment imagined my father finding out that… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
so what brings you to the doctor today?" "hmm, im afraid i have the chronic desire to save people" "i know about that. i've… — Deb Caletti Copy Share
