429 Quotes by Deb Caletti

We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessarily the truth.

Love is corny, when you get right down to it. It has two left feet. It trips over itself, because it is so large that it’s awkward. It’s sort of silly, done right. After all, how do you convey something that huge?

What came next wasn’t exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy household – that feeling of being perched and listening, the way an animal must feel at night in the dark, assessing danger.

Here is what happens when your mother worries: You become secretly worried. Anxiety plays in your background like bad grocery store music. You pace and count stuff and wake at night, your heart beating too fast. You pretend to be brave, and do stuff to prove you’re not a scared person like she is.

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 continued motion of the glider, which billows down like a setting sun. I never get tired of watching them and I’ve seen them thousands of times. I always wondered what that kind of freedom would feel like.

This is the problem with danger, isn’t it? You can even be warned and ignore the warning. Danger can seem far away until the sky grows dark, and a bolt of fury heads straight toward you.

Niceness is expected of her, not honesty.

Why does anyone do anything impossible? To be bigger than the big bastard.

Us frogs understand this.