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1 " That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable. "
― Deb Caletti
2 " You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for. "
― Deb Caletti , The Secret Life of Prince Charming
3 " It's good to let God pick a man for you. We don't do so well when we pick them ourselves. They end up lipsticks in a drawer, all those wrong colors you thought looked so good in the package. "
― Deb Caletti , The Queen of Everything
4 " Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control. "
5 " When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog. "
6 " I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay. "
― Deb Caletti , The Six Rules of Maybe
7 " It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama. "
8 " This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent. "
9 " I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving. "
10 " I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this. "
― Deb Caletti , Stay
11 " You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought--put together all those random pieces form everyone who's ever known you from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it. "
12 " The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket. "
― Deb Caletti , Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
13 " Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing. "
14 " Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always. "
15 " I could forget that part, but it had to have been true. "
― Deb Caletti , The Story of Us
16 " Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all. "
17 " They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear. "
― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade
18 " We look down our noses at people who've made mistakes in relationships. She's so stupid! How could she do that! Our superiority makes us feel better. But I’d bet everything I have on the fact that people to claim to have a perfect record in love are either lying or have very limited dating experience. People who say, I’d never do that! Someday, unless you are very, very lucky, you’ll have a story to tell. Or not to tell. "
19 " So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love. "
20 " A relationship could be a place to hide too. "
