Top 200 Deb Caletti Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.”

— Deb Caletti

102. “I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.”

— Deb Caletti

103. “Something has happened to her and about her, and yet it is hard to grasp this fact. Her run is larger than her, and yet her daily life is mostly just her solitary steps, the rhythm of them, her daily aches, her loneliness, and the flashes of the nightmares that she experiences daily. It seems that she’s become a person with a message, but she’s unclear what the message is. Maybe because the message is still fighting its way through the grief and guilt to get to her.”

— Deb Caletti

104. “They call an abusive relationship a cycle of violence, when really it’s a cycle of hope. It’s a cycle of misguided optimism. One day that optimism is gone, if you’re lucky.”

— Deb Caletti

105. “Nature is never static, I understand. Change is ever-constant, clouds zipping across a sky. It is dynamic, complicated, tangled, mostly beautiful. A moving forward, something newly gained, means that something is lost, too.”

— Deb Caletti

106. “Blessed books – they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.”

— Deb Caletti

107. “This was what happened after you’d been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.”

— Deb Caletti

108. “She can’t truly outrun her future, but you can’t tell her body that.”

— Deb Caletti

109. “Ive never met a popcorn ball I didnt like.”

— Deb Caletti

110. “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

111. “I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”

— Deb Caletti

112. “The hurt affects your ability to go forward.”

— Deb Caletti

113. “Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.”

— Deb Caletti

114. “Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?”

— Deb Caletti

115. “A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?”

— Deb Caletti

116. “Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.”

— Deb Caletti

117. “It’s a simple truth that a secret is something you’re ashamed of.”

— Deb Caletti

118. “When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.”

— Deb Caletti

119. “I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat.”

— Deb Caletti

120. “A relationship could be a place to hide too.”

— Deb Caletti

121. “Sometimes you’re sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they’re only their simple, goofy selves.”

— Deb Caletti

122. “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

123. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

124. “We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.”

— Deb Caletti

125. “Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.”

— Deb Caletti

126. “Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.”

— Deb Caletti

127. “Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.”

— Deb Caletti

128. “I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.”

— Deb Caletti

129. “I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.”

— Deb Caletti

130. “We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love – it is not the book itself, but the binding.”

— Deb Caletti

131. “It’s hard to be all that you can be on carrot sticks and criticism.”

— Deb Caletti

132. “You could care enough to keep a secret, but you could care enough to tell one, too.”

— Deb Caletti

133. “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

134. “All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.”

— Deb Caletti

135. “Funny the only two times we use the phrase “seeing someone” are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.”

— Deb Caletti

136. “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.”

— Deb Caletti

137. “I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get.”

— Deb Caletti

138. “You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”

— Deb Caletti

139. “Love is corny, when you get right down to it. It has two left feet. It trips over itself, because it is so large that it’s awkward. It’s sort of silly, done right. After all, how do you convey something that huge?”

— Deb Caletti

140. “We don’t want you convicted for condiment theft. You go to that prison, you’ll meet big-time operators. Maple syrup stealers.”

— Deb Caletti

141. “This is the problem with danger, isn’t it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.”

— Deb Caletti

142. “You never know what a day will bring, which is both the good news and band news of life.”

— Deb Caletti

143. “I put the guitar back in the case. I can’t even look at it anymore. Instead, I want to make brownies. I want an end result there’s a recipe for. I want to combine eggs and water and oil and chocolate and flour and sugar and vanilla and get something fulfilling.”

— Deb Caletti

144. “Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It’s a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that’s not true.”

— Deb Caletti

145. “It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it’s, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.”

— Deb Caletti

146. “Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.”

— Deb Caletti

147. “Fury and devastation are fraternal twins.”

— Deb Caletti

148. “They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.”

— Deb Caletti

149. “Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can’t, is all.”

— Deb Caletti

150. “A person is never as quiet as they seem, we are thickly layered page lying upon page behind simple covers.”

— Deb Caletti