Quotes by Deb Caletti

The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and theres only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself. (pg. 82)

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.

Sometimes youre sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know theyre only their simple, goofy selves.

It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non-waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding--something long-strived-for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that theres something you need to be doing.

We were right to come here, if only because the ocean reminded you that impossible things were possible. Miles and miles of the deepest waters that moved like clockwork were possible. Creatures like jellyfish and sea urchins were, too. Millions and jillions of the tiniest grains of sand to form one long, soft beach—yep, even that was possible.

You have the ability to just go on and forget people and how much they are meant, but I dont. You can people in their own little boxes and leave them there. So much for love. So much for soul mates. Im sorry you dont want to believe the best or how I can change. You put a stake through the heart. Im the only one who cared enough to suffer like this.

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

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, its, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

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

It was about the way a moment, a single moment, could change things and make you decide to try to be someone different.

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

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.

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

If happiness shouldnt make you so miserable, misery shouldnt make you so happy.

Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves.

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.

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

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.

“It starts so young, and Im angry about that. The garbage were taught. About love, about whats romantic. Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue.”

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