Deb Caletti

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

— Deb Caletti

“We try to hold a storm in our own fist but we are not that strong.”

— Deb Caletti

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

— Deb Caletti

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

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“The people who ask for advice are the ones who already know what they should do.”

— Deb Caletti

“Butterflies are trapped first, before they are free.”

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

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“Maybe it was better to be who he thought I was than who I thought I was.”

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“We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I…

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“What is uneasy when you are awake in the daylight is terror in the dark honesty of your dreams.”

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A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the…

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“The night smelled like blackberry leaves and the ocean’s nearness, something sweet and deep and full.”

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

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You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who…

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“I knew something else, too: It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also…

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“More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.”

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When I was a young mother at home with a two year old and a five year old, living on the Eastside…

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I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that…

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I didn't walk over and talk to him, though, not then. If I needed the time for a tree branch to become…

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“[He] made me feel…large, maybe. In a way I hadn't before. But he didn't know that. For all he knew, I was…

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“Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and…

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Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel…

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Love with someone else, an actual person, was another matter. People got hurt doing that. People cried and wrapped their arms around…

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You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I…

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The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood…

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“There was something about her mouth that made me feel possibilities...the way a train ticket holds possibilities, the way a boat docked…

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“You read all kinds of books and see all kinds of movies about the man who is obsessed and devoted, whose focus…

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“It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non-waking moment in…

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I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your…

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“There was no question that it was a necessary divorce, but that didn’t make it less painful. You don’t think it will…

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Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re…

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This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it…

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

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she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

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You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

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“Holy Christ fate’s got a fucking sick sense of humor ” he chuckled.”

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

— Deb Caletti

“Whipped cream can remind you why it's good to be alive.”

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

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“Apologies were harder for the person getting one than the person giving one.”

— Deb Caletti