Deb Caletti citations

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.”

“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?”

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

“… 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”