“ It's some twisted, limited, grocery-store mentality, where people have to be dairy products or vegetables or frozen foods for us to be able to understand them and feel safe. Maybe we've just become su… Deb Caletti
“ If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck) Deb Caletti
“ I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others." "And?" I asked. "Those that forgive others too easily… Deb Caletti
“ I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay. Deb Caletti
“ Those questions you have? Whether he's the one, whether you feel about him the way you should, or whether the relationship is going okay? When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or no… Deb Caletti
“ 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
“ Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the… Deb Caletti
“ I didn't know what I wanted to Be...A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. and it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a… Deb Caletti
“ Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't fa… Deb Caletti
“ 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. Deb Caletti
“ It was more work than it seemed, looking through a telescope, as the Earth was continually moving and you had to move along with it. You don't realize how fast this acutally happens, and it's kind of… Deb Caletti
“ I love to see those paragliders weaving softly around Moon Point, their legs floating above you in the air. When they drift in for a landing, their feet touch the ground and they trot forward from the… Deb Caletti
“ 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. Deb Caletti
“ Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth. Deb Caletti
“ 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 power… Deb Caletti
“ The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. Deb Caletti
“ Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight. Deb Caletti
“ 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… Deb Caletti
“ We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. Deb Caletti
