Quotes from Deb Caletti

Six? Here?" he says. Six, here. Seven, eight, nine, anywhere.

My instinct is on target about Jenny, because she answers the phone with, "Is everything all right?" "I've been abducted," I say. "Aliens, I hope," she says. "We can make some money when you sell your story to the media.

I'm sure I'm not the only wife who feels that—the small relief at his absence. I love him very much, I do; but the house to yourself … No need for conversation or company or the press of his presence

I suppose you don't stand much if a chance if you think that happiness us the absence of unhappiness,' he said. 'Good luck ever being happy, then.

Lari memberitahu saya bahwa saya tak tahu apa yang harus dilakukan, tapi saya harus melakukan sesuatu.

It's bold, but I don't mean to be. It's more of a curious realization. A kiss is on thing. Four thirty in the morning is another.

Why does anyone do anything impossible? To be bigger than the big bastard.

Stuff always happens, whether a day from now or years, stuff that will make a person glad to be alive, if you can somehow just ride through the self-hatred and the gouging and the bad.

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.

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

When your arms are out wide, you'll capture love and joy and golden moments but other things, too. Mistrust will sneak in on a wave of that joy, and complications will ride the backs of the golden moments, and there will be both love and the risks of love. That's the way it is. That's the design.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

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

In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.

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.

That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

I vow... "to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.