429 Quotes by Deb Caletti

It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it’s, Ho hum, pass the beans. A guy, you have to act like he just built the Taj Mahal.

Sometimes you’re sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they’re only their simple, goofy selves.

It’s shocking the things we call love.

Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That’s all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.

My father said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what’s good for you. It’s your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You’re an idiot if you think it means you’ve met your soul mate. So I was an idiot.

Nature is never static, I understand. Change is ever-constant, clouds zipping across a sky. It is dynamic, complicated, tangled, mostly beautiful. A moving forward, something newly gained, means that something is lost, too.

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.

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 powerful people.

Music and books stir up emotions. They make feelings rise and clatter and wreck, and sometimes that’s dangerous. But music can make you rise up and clatter and destroy when you need to, too.