Top 200 Deb Caletti Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.”

— Deb Caletti

52. “One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.”

— Deb Caletti

53. “You knew me. You KNOW me. I can’t imagine my life without you, without someone who knows me that well.”

— Deb Caletti

54. “When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”

— Deb Caletti

55. “Maybe she’s meant to be alone. Unmarried. Deliciously free of people’s expectations. It sort of sounds like heaven, actually.”

— Deb Caletti

56. “Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people.”

— Deb Caletti

57. “Oh, every person is a book with chapters. Some are glorious and some are dark and ugly. Every person survives something.”

— Deb Caletti

58. “You take care of the people you love, but it’s true, too, that you take care of the things you own.”

— Deb Caletti

59. “Grief is everywhere. It’s its own being. It walks beside you silently, jumps out at you meanly, pokes you awake at night. It makes tears roll down your cheeks at a blue sky.”

— Deb Caletti

60. “She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.”

— Deb Caletti

61. “When you’re not sure whether you’re in love with someone or not, the answer is not.”

— Deb Caletti

62. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

63. “You were a stone wall, a fort in high, unreachable trees, an island, my own island, that no boat could reach.”

— Deb Caletti

64. “It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn’t drama.”

— Deb Caletti

65. “If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i’m the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

— Deb Caletti

66. “Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.”

— Deb Caletti

67. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

68. “Ass-kissing is the last resort of any anxious person who’s in over their head.”

— Deb Caletti

69. “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, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar.”

— Deb Caletti

70. “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 someone can come along and tip them over with only his fingers, or the weight of his breath.”

— Deb Caletti

71. “A person who says “it’s your decision” is informing you that your decision sucks.”

— Deb Caletti

72. “If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person’s entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”

— Deb Caletti

73. “Anxiety is like being in freeway traffic all the time. There’s the constant sense of dodging and darting, seeking your chance to cut in, the irritation of others pulling ahead of you. You hit the accelerator, you slam the brakes. You scout and scan for danger.”

— Deb Caletti

74. “Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”

— Deb Caletti

75. “When you are a human being, you must decide and decide again to go forward. You must, or you won’t move from the worst that life offers...”

— Deb Caletti

76. “Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.”

— Deb Caletti

77. “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, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.”

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

79. “A lot of life is just surviving what happens.”

— Deb Caletti

80. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

81. “You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.”

— Deb Caletti

82. “It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.”

— Deb Caletti

83. “All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.”

— Deb Caletti

84. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

85. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

86. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

87. “Love doesn’t seem to follow a plan; it’s not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature – an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild, relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.”

— Deb Caletti

88. “Too often in my life, love has been defined as “humiliation with occasional roses”.”

— Deb Caletti

89. “Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can’t even see straight.”

— Deb Caletti

90. “True love, the good, beautiful, one-and-only kind, the kind between loving friends and family and partners who are mostly just trying hard to do their best, it manages to overlook some pieces of its story. It overlooks what he can’t give you or how she failed you or what mistakes he made when he was struggling. It stays steady at its center. It evolves, through drought and storm. It grows. It survives.”

— Deb Caletti

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

— Deb Caletti

92. “Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn’t, family that wasn’t family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.”

— Deb Caletti

93. “A human heart is the size of two hands clasped together. Imagine your own hands joined, or your hand in someone else’s, because that is what hands are for, and what hearts are for: holding each other. This can be very, very hard to remember when hearts have been so broken.”

— Deb Caletti

94. “Your only job – and it’s a big one – is to try to speak and live your own honest truth. That truth might shift. You might need more time to even understand what that truth is. That’s it. That’s the job. Trying to manage or control everyone else? Not the job. Impossible, besides.”

— Deb Caletti

95. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

96. “Grief is everywhere. It’s its own being. It walks beside you silently, jumps out at you meanly; pokes you awake at night.”

— Deb Caletti

97. “You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.”

— Deb Caletti

98. “The problem is, she’s done things too often because she didn’t what to disappoint people.”

— Deb Caletti

99. “Music and books stir up emotions. They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that’s dangerous. But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too.”

— Deb Caletti

100. “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.”

— Deb Caletti