Quotes from Deb Caletti

When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.

I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.

A parent's experience is an unknowable one. How, after all, can a child fathom what it means to be a parent, let alone a parent of a certain generation, with a certain personal history, with a certain spouse, with even a certain child? I get ready for my meeting with

The river is winding and scenic, like a picture of a river. It's

Some of the most dangerous people are the ones you're related to.

Right comes with right timing.

I used to know a woman named Anita Hurl," Lizbeth said. "Get it? I need to hurl?

I always seemed to forget that needing your mother and getting what you needed from your

They will become afraid to the point of harming people after they've been hurt, even people who try to help them.

Quitting-it was a dirty word in a place where pilgrims had endured harsh winters and where pioneers had struggled through death and disease to create new lives. Giving up or stepping back or setting aside something you thought you wanted- it was almost a shameful act.

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.

You could forget that history was something that happened to real people.

Does the river make the choice to erode the rock?

She is exquisitely elsewhere.

She has spoken and survived.

If," she says. "It's a beautiful word. If is a key to any locked door.

Fear causes the greatest changes, when you think about it. Fear is a monumental force.

The hurt affects your ability to move forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.

To be devasted, or to let the truth in, finally, finally, all the way, all the way, all the way, until it fills you with its own strength, with it's own knowledge--that love is light and not darkness, that love that is not good is not wortht of you, that love can only truly be given by those who are ble, those with hearts of quality and with careful hands.

It's too easy to let good stuff slip through your hands while you're busy grasping at big, impossible dreams that might wreck you.

Annabelle?" Ovivia says gently. "This is about you. But also...me. All of us. And... my little sisters. Every woman. Every person, but especially - every female person.

The people who ask for advice are the ones who already know what they should do.

I understand he's not guilty of anything except maybe loving too much. This boy, he is just ... mine.

Goddamn it, Harry. You can't go falling for someone right in front of me after I got my heart broken. It's just plain rude.