Deb Caletti Quotes.

1. "Nice isn't the same as good," he said. "People are 'nice' for a million of reasons. 'Nice' is the outside. What people get to see. What you want people to see. 'Good' is the inside. And this is a bad person, C. He's making you a fucking prisoner and your letting him"
- Deb Caletti, Stay

2. "Accents are funny in that they have this odd draw for us, yet we forget we have one, too. No one is without an accent, but the one you’ve got seems like oatmeal to their caviar."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

3. "Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t. People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

4. "Sometimes that's all you need. To know it's not broken. To know you're still whole and that you'll heal."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

5. "Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

6. "... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

7. "But my apology was a thousand apologies."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

8. "I mean it’s purposeful, even if we don’t realize it. The desire to put things in our path, to figure out how to finally leave the behind…."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

9. "Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity."
- Deb Caletti, Stay

10. "It was a shut door, and shut doors meant things kept to yourself. There were reasons you kept things to yourself, and they usually weren’t good, happy, open-air sort of reasons. Still, I didn’t want to see behind that door. You think you want to know everything there is to know about everything there is to know. But you don’t. Not really. I had pried the lid off of the dark places of another person before, I had seen inside. Down deep. You don’t want to look at what’s rotting there."
- Deb Caletti, Stay