Deb Caletti Quotes

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

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• A relationship could be a place to hide too.

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

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  Topics in Love

• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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  Topics in Life

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time, Books, Reading

• We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love – it is not the book itself, but the binding.

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Love

• Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.

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  Topics in Truth

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

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Deb Caletti (15)

Birth:	16th June, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Writer

About

Deb Caletti was born in San Rafael, California. She is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. She is a National Book Award finalist, as well as the recipient of other numerous awards including PEN USA finalist award, the Washington State Book Award, and SLJ Best Book award. Her first adult fiction novel, "He's Gone", was published by Random House in 2013, and will be followed by her second book for adults, "The Divorce Ranch" in 2015. She earned a BA in Journalism from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1985.

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