429 Quotes by Deb Caletti

The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.

Hundreds,' Joe says. 'Hundreds and hundreds. But then again, I'm old.' So old, Jesus was in your math class,' I say. I crack myself up.

The hurt affects your ability to go forward.

I began to learn the importance of lifting things up and looking underneath.

You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.

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.

So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.

She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.