Quotes from Deb Caletti

You take care of the people you love, but it's true, too, that you take care of the things you own.

When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the 'Queen of Everything,' I thought it was a book for adults.

We can get so wrapped up in our own misconceptions that we miss the simple beauty of the truth.

Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.

Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.

It's a simple truth that a secret is something you're ashamed of.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.

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.

What's that about? Love must be more about power than we think, if even in its most intimate moment of expression we think about not being the one who risks the most.

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

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

Love seems to be something to approach with caution, as if you'd come across a wrapped box in the middle of the street and have no idea what it contains.

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.

Yeah. When you want what's real and you try to find that in high school, you might as well be looking for a mossy rock beside a babbling brook on the corner of Sixth and Pine in downtown Seattle.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

My most memorable teacher was Rich Campe, my third-grade teacher at Fairlands Elementary in Pleasanton, California.

'The Nature of Jade' is about a girl who works with the elephants at the zoo near her home, and who, through her involvement with them, becomes involved with a boy and his baby.

One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library.

It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.

I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!