Deb Caletti quotes - page 3

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. (Deb Caletti)
A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart. View quote
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Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 you don't have to struggle to be good enough for. View quote
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That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable. View quote
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I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay. View quote
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It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. View quote
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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 had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off. View quote
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Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth. View quote
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I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days... No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance. (Deb Caletti)
I've wished for things and never really had the chance... It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then... go. View quote
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Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow. View quote
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Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes. View quote
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You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did. View quote
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A person who says "it's your decision" is informing you that your decision sucks. View quote
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Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple. View quote
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All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. View quote
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We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together. View quote
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It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of. View quote
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This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good. (Deb Caletti)
To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. View quote
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I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn't working for me when it wasn't working. The world doesn't come crashing down when you speak the truth. View quote
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Blessed books-they're a place to be alone, and no one else can come in. View quote
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Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses". View quote
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