The romantic element is what the story Essential Maps for the Lost, sort of sits on, but all the stuff below the surface is really about family. It's about the baggage we bring, both the good and the hard stuff… — 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 Image
“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 Image
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, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what… — 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 Image
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 your worst. It´s your most hope and then you most despair. Lightness, darkness, it can swing between extremes at lightning speed- a boat upon the water on the most dangerous day, and then the clouds crawl… — 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 Image
“You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“In a world of insanity, nothing is sacred. It's an insane world, nothing is sacred.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“And because he was nice in the beginning did not mean he was a good man.” — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
“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 Image
