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
Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.
I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.
Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all.
I don’t know why we do it. But sometimes we just swim straight for the net.
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.
Maybe sometimes you just feel like everything can be taken from you all at once.
Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.
This was what happened after you'd been together with someone a long time. You loved that it was old and worn and comfy, but sometimes it was old and worn and comfy.
Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
When you go looking for rescue, you end up trapped in your own weakness.
It's human nature to want to help and soothe and save with your love, but it's also arrogant.
In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.