Quotes by Deb Caletti

About Deb Caletti:

Deb Caletti is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. Caletti is a National Book Award finalist, as well as the recipient of other numerous awards including PEN USA finalist award, the Washington State Book Award, and SLJ Best Book award. Caletti's books feature the Pacific Northwest, and her young adult work is popular for tackling difficult issues typically reserved for adult fiction. Her first adult fiction novel, "He's Gone", was published by Random House in 2013, and will be followed by her second book for adults, "The Divorce Ranch" in 2015. She currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.

Deb Caletti

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

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

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Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves.

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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.

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It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had.

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They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

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More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.

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Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, ...

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Running away can also be running to.

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Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

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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...

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

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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.

Deb Caletti

What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short,' everything is fine. You say it, & it's a guarantee you'll come out read...

Deb Caletti

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

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If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

Deb Caletti

The hope was, people like me got to finally find our place in college or in the actual world. People who understood this told you that high school wasn't the actual world, that it was more like a temporary alternate reality you were forced to believe...

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You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

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If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameDeb Caletti
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJune 16, 1963
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist