Deb Caletti

“She is exquisitely elsewhere.”

— Deb Caletti

“the mind is a tyrant”

— Deb Caletti

“Us frogs understand this.”

— Deb Caletti

Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger.

— Deb Caletti

Once an asshole, always an asshole.

— Deb Caletti

Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.

— Deb Caletti

“She has spoken and survived.”

— Deb Caletti

“ Always. Stay always. Always. ”

— Deb Caletti

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

— Deb Caletti

“You gotta love an old-fashioned word like "quarrelsome." Today she'd just be a bitch.”

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

“We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.”

— Deb Caletti

“often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else’s loss.”

— Deb Caletti

It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.

— Deb Caletti

Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my…

— Deb Caletti

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

— Deb Caletti

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

“Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not…

— Deb Caletti

Most people, it seems like they've only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else.…

— Deb Caletti

“Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door,…

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

“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

But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in…

— Deb Caletti

The favorite game of temperamental people is Try to Guess Why I’m Ticked Off. (Contestant number one, Why do YOU think he’s…

— Deb Caletti

It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place.…

— Deb Caletti

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other…

— Deb Caletti

“Prunus persica: peach. While the fruit of this plant is juicy and sweet, the seed-like the seeds of cherries, apples, plums and…

— Deb Caletti

“Nice isn't the same as good," he said. "People are 'nice' for a million of reasons. 'Nice' is the outside. What people…

— Deb Caletti

Once, I had to drive Oliver to soccer, was ten minutes late, and learned that there had apparently been a misprint in…

— Deb Caletti

“Our memories and the events of our lives are untidy things. We wish that we could file them away and shut the…

— Deb Caletti

“I made a silent promise to myself--I would come back when no one was here, and I would read those words. Maybe…

— Deb Caletti

“But something had already been set in motion, and I wonder and wonder how things would have been if I'd just let…

— Deb Caletti

You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I…

— Deb Caletti

“I tried to read that book again before I went to sleep. I didn’t like that book, but I kept going for…

— Deb Caletti

I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the…

— Deb Caletti

We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority…

— Deb Caletti

“I want to wash your hair with a shampoo that smells like fruit - mango, or strawberries. I want to walk on…

— Deb Caletti