Deb Caletti Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• This is what happens when nice people are pushed too far. We give too many chances, and so when we've finally had enough, we are well and truly done. When a nice person shuts a door on you, it's shut for good.

  Deb Caletti

  Nice, Doors, People

  Deb Caletti (2013). “He's Gone: A Novel”, p.129, Bantam

• We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it.

  Deb Caletti

  Giving, Doe, Moments

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

• summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.

  Deb Caletti

  Summer, Quiet People, Grateful

  FaceBook post by Deb Caletti from Jul 20, 2015

• The six rules of maybe 1. respect the power of hope and possibilites. Begin with beleif. Hold onto it. 2. If you known where you want to go, you're already half way there. Know what you desire but, more imporantly, why you desire it. Then go. 3. hopes and dreams and heart's desires require a clear path-get out of your own way 4. Place hope carefully in your own hands and in the hands of others 5. Persist, if necessary 6. That said, most importantly-know when you've reached an end, Quit, give up, do it with courage. Giving up is not failing-it's the chance to begin again.

  Deb Caletti

  Dream, Giving Up, Heart

• A new person in your life gives the rest of you a chance to be new, too. Your life can be whatever you want it to, from there on out. I leaned in and kissed and that is who I was to him, not shy, but bold. Not inhibited, but brave. I was that to him and so I kept being that. It was what I thought he wanted and what he was attracted to, and yet it was this, this exact thing I wasn't even really, that made him the most insecure.

  Deb Caletti

  Insecure, Giving, Brave

• 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

• I thought I might cry, the way you do when someone gives you some kindness when you most need it but when it seems the most surprising thing.

  Deb Caletti

  Kindness, Giving, Needs

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.152, Simon and Schuster

• This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling...I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere "Have fun, honey.

  Deb Caletti

  Mom, Fun, Sibling

• But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

  Deb Caletti

  Apology, Thinking, Giving

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

• I know parental embarrassment usually stops somewhere at fifteen, but he just kept on giving me good reasons.

  Deb Caletti

  Giving, Fifteen, Reason

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

• The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.

  Deb Caletti

  Believe, Fate, Godly

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