Deb Caletti Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Fate, Ideas

• Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Swim

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

• Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Blessed

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

• We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Life, Sweet

• 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.

  Deb Caletti

  Get Well, Book, Time Heals

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

• Maybe we ought to look at a guy's response to our microwave from now on." Aunt Annie said. Really." Mom said. "The narcissist looks at his reflection in it. The OCD guy thinks you don't keep it clean enough.The antisocial--" Puts his fist through it because it reminds him of his father." Annie said. She'd read all of mom's books, too. And the paranoid one would be jealous of the amount of time you spend cooking." Mom said Were you using that microwave again? Is something going on between the two of you? I caught you looking right at its clock." Annie said.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Father, Book

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

• 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.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Thinking, Everyday

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

• You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and you could come out with your head on a little straighter. I don't why stories worked that way, but they did.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Reading, Confusion

• I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.

  Deb Caletti

  Confused, Real, Book

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

• She would bring you some great book because she was a book matchmaker, because she loved books the way other girls loved clothes.

  Deb Caletti

  Girl, Book, Clothes

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

• You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Looks

• We are thickly layered, page lying upon page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding.

  Deb Caletti

  Love, Lying, Book

  Deb Caletti (2011). “Honey, Baby, Sweetheart”, p.264, Simon and Schuster

• Becoming a YA author was actually a very lucky accident. When I wrote the Queen of Everything, I thought it was a book for adults.

  Deb Caletti

  Queens, Book, Adults

• I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Book, I Believe

• I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Ideas, Way

• All of my books come from something that I happen to be working out at a given point in my life. Its kind of self-therapy.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Self, Work Out

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