Deb Caletti Quotes - Page 2

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

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

What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short,' everything is fine. You say it, & it's a guarantee you'll come out ready for the military>

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

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

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

A relationship could be a place to hide too.

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.

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

Usually, I set one foot in a library and I feel my own internal volume lower. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh. It’s the silence, sure, but it’s also the certainty of all those books, the way they stand side by side with their still, calm conviction. It’s the reassurance of knowledge in the face of confusion.

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

Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature - an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild, relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

Rejection, though-it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

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.

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.

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.

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

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

And pity-people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you-that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people.