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 CalettiTo an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.
Deb CalettiYou 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 CalettiIt occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
Deb CalettiI finally learned that it was all right to say something wasnโt working for me when it wasnโt working. The world doesnโt come crashing down when you speak the truth.
Deb CalettiMaybe love, too, is beautiful because it has a wildness that cannot be tamed. I don't know. All I know is that passion can take you up like a house of cards in a tornado, leaving destruction in its wake. Or it can let you alone because you've built a stone wall against it, set out the armed guards to keep it from touching you. The real trick is not to let it in, but to hold on. To understand that the heart is as wide and vast as the universe, but that we come to know it best from here, this place is gravity and stability, where out feet can still touch ground.
Deb Caletti