One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. Deb Caletti More Quotes by Deb Caletti More Quotes From Deb Caletti 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 importantletting-gopeople I felt a constant, low-flying desperation, the kind you feel when you are trying, trying, trying to get something you will never, ever get. Deb Caletti flyingkindtrying Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time. Deb Caletti stereotypeeasylying Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same. Deb Caletti together-againtogether ...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic. Deb Caletti oceanhurtlying Because that’s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand objects take on new meaning. Everything is a reminder of something else. Deb Caletti remindersterriblethousand Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter. Deb Caletti everydaybookthinking 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 creativityeyebelieve 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 crashing-downspeakworld This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent. Deb Caletti spacewaitingperfect 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 emptyspacelooks A relationship could be a place to hide too. Deb Caletti All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because were liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that. Deb Caletti viewpointseventsliars The scariest part of forever is that nothing is. Deb Caletti forever The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind can’t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal. Deb Caletti crazymindlong It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren’t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn’t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don’t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don’t want to look at what’s rotting there. Deb Caletti airdarkthinking I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net. Deb Caletti swimknowssometimes I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly. Deb Caletti gardendifferenteye Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? Deb Caletti magicianifsliars She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes. Deb Caletti clothesgirlbook
