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Deb Caletti Quotes | Quotes said by Deb Caletti

  • Deb Caletti Quote #1

    ...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #2

    A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word no, of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

  • Deb Caletti Quote #3

    A relationship could be a place to hide too.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #4

    An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean. I learned that. This kind of story, this kind of things kept secrets -they have the power to keep your head in forever, and most of all for yourself.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #5

    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 Quote #6

    Because what is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it. It can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog; hidden behind a curve of road, and then suddenly there in full glory. Its waves come like breaths, in and out, in and out, body stretched to forever in its possibilities, and yet its heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #7

    Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #8

    But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #9

    Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #10

    Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #11

    Flawed Human Parents + Shit Life Throws At You = Childhood That 'Builds Character.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #12

    I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people, she said. I waited. Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others.
    And? I asked.
    Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #13

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

  • Deb Caletti Quote #14

    I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards...I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win...What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to succeed at your chosen direction was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #15

    I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days...No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #16

    I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #17

    I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #18

    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 Quote #19

    I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I've seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #20

    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.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #21

    I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #22

    I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. But I found out that a healthy relationship isn't so much about sense of humor or intelligence or attractive. It's about avoiding partners with harmful traits and personality types. And then it's about being with a good person. A good person on his own, and a good person with you. Where the space between you feels uncomplicated and happy. A good relationship is where things just work. They work because, whatever the list of qualities, whatever the reason, you happen to be really, really good together.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #23

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

  • Deb Caletti Quote #24

    I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

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

  • Deb Caletti Quote #27

    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.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #28

    If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

  • Deb Caletti Quote #29

    If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)
    Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

  • Deb Caletti Quote #30

    If you look up charming in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?

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