Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
People always ask, "How do you get in the mind of the teen reader?" I think all human beings have these common… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Sometimes maybe you should let someone you love travel great distances away from you. You shouldn’t think you needed to set out… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy,… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy… — 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,… — 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
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 Image
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