429 Quotes by Deb Caletti

...wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.

Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

It was possible, maybe, to have facts in your mind that weren't facts at all. You could build a whole life's story on false assumptions. You could make truths out of untruths and untruths out of truths. Until you spoke them, really said them out loud or checked for sure, you may not have known which were which.

Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.

Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.

Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.

No, Mom. I said fine." "It's just your tone." Ah, yes- the tone. The nasty traitor.

A person could leave you so quickly. So much history and time and memories, but they snuck away from you, and other things took their place. How could you hold on? Wait. A bigger question. The biggest. How could you hold on and let go?

We had lain together, skin on skin, been as close as two people could, and he was a stranger. He was that someone who you are afraid of as a child, stranger. They never told you that stranger might be someone you knew.