...forever is hard enough without it beginning now.

— Deb Caletti

Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.

— Deb Caletti

I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others." "And?" I asked. "Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves.

— Deb Caletti

I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.

— Deb Caletti

I didn't know what I wanted to Be... A sense that I had permanently botched things already, embarked on the trip without the map. And it scared me too, that I might end up as a mother of 3 working in a psychiatrist's office, or renting surfboards... I guess I saw their lives as failed somehow, absent of the Big Win... What is fate was an inherited trait? What if luck came through the genetic line, and the ability to "succeed" at your chosen "direction" was handed down, just like the family china? Maybe I was destined to be a weed too.

— Deb Caletti

I don't get why prom is like a mini-wedding these days... No one should spend that kind of money for a high school dance.

— Deb Caletti

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

— Deb Caletti

If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

— Deb Caletti

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

— Deb Caletti

If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)

— Deb Caletti