All Deb Caletti Quotes
- I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. Embarrassment
- They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew. Inspirational
- No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor. Ah
- I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into… Academic
- But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I… Attitude
- Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses". Been
- I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung… Afraid
- So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love. Bad
- It's shocking the things we call love. Call
- This is not to say I don’t feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It’s just that the telling does not… Assume
- A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t. Doesn
- Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent,… Accent
- You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own. Care
- What’s that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not… Expression
- I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves… Committed
- It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of. Ashamed
- I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the… Cry
- But my apology was a thousand apologies. Apologies
- We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you… Afraid
- Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth. Biggest
- You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too. Care
- 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… Admitting
- Sometimes you build up these walls, you build and you build and you build up these walls and you think they’re so strong, but then… Along
- A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks. Decision
- A lot of life is just surviving what happens. Happens