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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 the 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 was followed by her second book for adults, The Secrets She Keeps in 2015.

✵ 16. June 1963
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Famous Deb Caletti Quotes

“Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say… Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Once an asshole, always an asshole.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

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

Deb Caletti

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Deb Caletti Quotes about love

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

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

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Maybe I was being too picky. Maybe I didn't want to be close to anyone. Maybe I'd just be the type who couldn't feel love all the way or something. I couldn't tell what was wrong, but what was wrong was that it just wasn't right.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Deb Caletti Quotes about feelings

“I don’t know why we insist on pain when pain is so often easy to eliminate. It’s funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we’ve committed some crime.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Story of Us

“Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Deb Caletti: Trending quotes

“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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Nature of Jade

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

Deb Caletti Quotes

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“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

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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?”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Queen of Everything

“People are secretive when they have secrets.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“Are you getting your period?" She narrows her eyes.
No! God. I hate that. I hate when every negative act is blamed on your period." Sometimes bitchiness is just bitchiness, happily unattached to anything hormonal. It should get full credit.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Nature of Jade

“It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

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

Deb Caletti

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.”

Deb Caletti

“Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Funny the only two times we use the phrase "seeing someone" are when we are referring to being in a a relationship or getting psychological help.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“An untold story has a weight that can submerge you, sure as a sunken ship at the bottom of the ocean.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

“One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Queen of Everything

“I finally learned that it was all right to say something wasn’t working for me when it wasn’t working. The world doesn’t come crashing down when you speak the truth.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Stay

“The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Story of Us

“It's shocking the things we call love.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Darkness does this. It finds all the places you are hiding in. It finds all the things you are holding onto tightly and makes you let go.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Queen of Everything

“Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“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

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

“A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and
let go?”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Story of Us

“So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

“… 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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Queen of Everything

“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

Source: The Fortunes of Indigo Skye

“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

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Anyway, madness and genius. They're the disturbed pals of the human condition. The Bonnie and Clyde, the Thelma and Louise, the baking soda and vinegar. Insanity just walks alongside the brilliant like some creepy, insistent shadow.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Wild Roses

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

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“My subconscious speaks in a foreign language.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“Supposedly there's an actual, researched link between extreme creativity and mental illness, and I believe it because I've seen it with my own eyes.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Wild Roses

“No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.”

Deb Caletti

Source: Wild Roses

“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.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Story of Us

“I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.”

Deb Caletti

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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