All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy. Deb Caletti More Quotes by Deb Caletti More Quotes From Deb Caletti Just because it turned out bad, doesn’t mean it wasn’t meant. Deb Caletti mean When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not. Deb Caletti not-sure answers You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite. Deb Caletti secret wish opposites No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think. Deb Caletti strong weak thinking I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. Deb Caletti fifteen reason giving This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy. Deb Caletti together sometimes long Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up. Deb Caletti clean mess sometimes No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor. Deb Caletti tone nasty mom The world was large, so large. Bigger than it had been before. Family, too, a bigger word. That felt like a good thing. An essential thing. There was power in numbers. Deb Caletti essentials numbers world But, finally, I had to open my eyes. I had to stop keeping secrets. The truth, thankfully, is insistent. What I saw then made action necessary. I had to see people for who they were. I had to understand why I made the choices I did. Why I had given them my loyalty. I had to make changed. I had to stop allowing love to be dangerous. I had to learn how to protect myself. But first… I had to look Deb Caletti keeping-secrets loyalty eye ...forever is hard enough without it beginning now. Deb Caletti hard enough forever I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath. Deb Caletti lifting importance Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath. Deb Caletti iron anchors needs 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 telling-the-truth sometimes people Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty. Deb Caletti empty tricks needed Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple. Deb Caletti simple should believe Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss. Deb Caletti safe loss thinking It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which. Deb Caletti stories mind may We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive. Deb Caletti motivation hurt moving Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing. Deb Caletti one-thing impossible wanted
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