Deb Caletti Quotes - Page 9

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• The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.

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  Love, Sex, Drama

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.

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  Letting Go, Darkness, Doe

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• But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.

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  Real, Toilets, Middle Of Nowhere

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.309, Simon and Schuster

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• No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

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  Mom, Tone, Nasty

  Deb Caletti (2013). “Love Is All You Need: Wild Roses; The Nature of Jade”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

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  Giving, Fifteen, Reason

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers.

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  Numbers, Essentials, World

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• At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

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  Art, Lying, Struggle

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• Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.

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  Hurt, Looks, Weapons

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Made, Ache

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

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  Empty, Tricks, Needed

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Six Rules of Maybe”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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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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  Regret, Wonder, Feels

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• Although I love snow, it messes things up terribly around Seattle, with all of our hills. I worry about my loved ones driving.

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  Snow, Worry, Driving

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• I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

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  Weed, Mother, Fate

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• We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.

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  Should Have, People, New Life

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

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  Confused, Real, Book

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• We're as good at talking ourselves out of fear as into it, aren't we? Maybe better.

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  Talking

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Stay”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.

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  Dog, Heart, Simple

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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 just a tree branch again and the wind to become just the wind, then a boy, most of all, needed some time to be only a boy.

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  Boys, Wind, Tree

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• The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.

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  Pain, Real, Simple

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

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  Powerful, Lying, Wind

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• Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.

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  Want, Way, Type

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.123, Simon and Schuster

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

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  Sometimes, Said

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.

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  Children, Two, People

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• But my apology was a thousand apologies.

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  Apology, Thousand

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 most surprising thing.

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  Kindness, Giving, Needs

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

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