Deb Caletti Quotes: 14

• That's what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you're not so lovable.

• 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.

  The Secret Life of Prince Charming

• 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.

  The Secret Life of Prince Charming

• 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.

  The Six Rules of Maybe

• 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.

  Stay

• 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.

  The Queen of Everything

• When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog.

  The Secret Life of Prince Charming

• It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn't drama.

  The Secret Life of Prince Charming

• 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.

  Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

• 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.

  Stay

• To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.

  Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

• What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short,' everything is fine. You say it, & it's a guarantee you'll come out ready for the military>

  The Six Rules of Maybe

• They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear.

  The Nature of Jade

• 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.

  Honey, Baby, Sweetheart