Deb Caletti
Deb Caletti
Deb Calettiis an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. Caletti is a National Book Award finalist, as well as the recipient of other numerous awards including PEN USA finalist award, the Washington State Book Award, and SLJ Best Book award. Caletti's books feature the Pacific Northwest, and her young adult work is popular for tackling difficult issues typically reserved for adult fiction. Her first adult fiction novel, He's Gone, was published by Random House in 2013 and was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 June 1963
CountryUnited States of America
A relationship could be a place to hide too.
I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.
A dog — a dog teaches us so much about love. Wordless, imperfect love; love that is constant, love that is simple goodness, love that forgives not only bad singing and embarrassments, but misunderstandings and harsh words. Love that sits and stays and stays and stays, until it finally becomes its own forever. Love, stronger than death. A dog is a four-legged reminder that love comes and time passes and then your heart breaks.
There are so many different fifteens. And eighteens. And forty-twos, for that matter. Mature fifteens and young fifteens and wise fifteens and lost fifteens. And angry fifteens.
Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.
The scariest part of forever is that nothing is.
The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
You … You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.
I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.
Sometimes I’ve even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.
Beaches, music, and car rides—they could all bring on a sudden bout of deep, dreamy thoughts.
Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.