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81 " ...forever is hard enough without it beginning now. "
― Deb Caletti , The Story of Us
82 " If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy. "
― Deb Caletti , The Six Rules of Maybe
83 " Life and our love for others is a balancing act, I understand then; a dance between our instinct to be safe and hold fast, and our drive to flee, to run - from danger, toward new places to feed ourselves. "
― Deb Caletti , The Nature of Jade
84 " I thought about him everyday until then. I started having these conversations with him in my head that you have when you meet someone you sense is going to be important in your life. "
― Deb Caletti , Stay
85 " If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians? "
― Deb Caletti , The Secret Life of Prince Charming
86 " It starts so young, and I'm angry about that. The garbage we're taught. About love, about what's "romantic." Look at so many of the so-called romantic figures in books and movies. Do we ever stop and think how many of them would cause serious and drastic unhappiness after The End? Why are sick and dangerous personality types so often shown a passionate and tragic and something to be longed for when those are the very ones you should run for your life from? Think about it. Heathcliff. Romeo. Don Juan. Jay Gatsby. Rochester. Mr. Darcy. From the rigid control freak in The Sound of Music to all the bad boys some woman goes running to the airport to catch in the last minute of every romantic comedy. She should let him leave. Your time is so valuable, and look at these guys--depressive and moody and violent and immature and self-centered. And what about the big daddy of them all, Prince Charming? What was his secret life? We dont know anything about him, other then he looks good and comes to the rescue. "
87 " To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery. "
― Deb Caletti , Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
88 " Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring, or a diamond, even. Glass shards, maybe. You've got to be careful, you do. The shine can blind you. The edges can cut you in way you never imagined. It is up to you to allow that or not. "
89 " People can attach themselves to something--an idea, another person, a desire--with an impossibly strong grip, and in the case of restless ghosts, a grip stronger than death. Will is a powerful thing. Will--it's supposed to be a good treat, a more determined and persistent version of determination and persistence. But will and obsession--they sit right next to each other. They pretend to be strangers and all the while meet secretly at midnight." - "
90 " I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons. "
91 " 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. "
― Deb Caletti , A Heart in a Body in the World
92 " One of the hardest tasks as a human being is knowing when to keep an open mind, and when not to. "
93 " Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo is standing on the ground looking longingly at Juliet on the balcony above him? One of the most romantic moments in all of literary history? Peach says there's no way that Romeo was standing down there to profess his undying devotion. The truth, Peach says, is that Romeo was just trying to look up Juliet's skirt. "
94 " Annabelle and I ate mussels on the back deck and drank beers until we were toasted. Laughed our asses off remembering these people in our classes and those stupid parties where literary people try so hard to be literary people. Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. 'Every time I see people in social circumstances like that, I can't help but imagine them in junior high, worrying about who they're going to eat lunch with,' Annabelle had said, and I always thought about that later. You see a person's inner thirteen-year-old and you won't look at them the same way again. "
95 " The whistle buried under my skin and became a permanent part of me. I had a radar for certain eyes afterward. It was a heightened awareness of the bad shit that could happen if I wasn't careful, and I could adjust the degree of it, but I would never be able to turn it off. "
― Deb Caletti , Girl, Unframed
96 " It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word... "
97 " She has decided to keep going, as anyone could tell by her closed eyes and calm expression. She realizes that all big decisions are ones that must be decided and decided again. She imagines that when you fall in love, you must decided to be in love a million times or more, and when you go to college, you must decide again and again to stay in college, and the same thing is true when you decide to run across the United States of America after a horrible tragedy.When you are a person who cares for any other person, you must decide again to care, she also understands. "
98 " My subconscious speaks in a foreign language. "
99 " Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same. "
100 " Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. "