“ It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had. Deb Caletti
“ The way two people can and everything place, find each other in a crowd, and change your life the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. In fate love some extra autho… Deb Caletti
“ Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls… Deb Caletti
“ 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. Deb Caletti
“ Rejection, though--it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending. Deb Caletti
“ I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities. If he has them, we'd be compatible and happy. Sort of a checkmark system that was a complete failure. B… Deb Caletti
“ 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 r… Deb Caletti
“ We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that peo… Deb Caletti
“ It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. Deb Caletti
“ It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and… Deb Caletti
“ 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. Deb Caletti
“ 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 oursel… Deb Caletti
“ 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. Deb Caletti
“ I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center. Deb Caletti
