429 Quotes by Deb Caletti

Most people, it seems like they’ve only got one part of the equation down. Caring for themselves, or caring for someone else. And I’v learned how important it is to have both.

I’d always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don’t want to lose someone, even if they don’t deserve our forgiveness.

Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn’t look like one.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.

Sometimes you’ve got to make a mess before you clean it up.

A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as feisty; we are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love – it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together... Layers, by their nature, are fragile things.

I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat.

She survived something big, and when you survive something big, you are always, always aware that next time you might not.