“But sometimes, too, you have this little feeling of knowing, this fuzzy, gnawing sense that someone will become a major something in your life. You just know that theirs will be a life you will enter and become a part of.” KnowsLittlesSometimesFeelingsKnowingMajorsFuzzy Book:Nature of Jade Source: Nature of Jade
“Here, kitty, kitty, Chico says. The cover of his cage is still on, making his tiny clown voice slightly muffled. I feel bad for him under there, just waiting to start his evil little day...Freud walks toward Chico in his slinky fashion, sits under his cage and just stares. We have satanic pets...our pets seem to have made a pact with the devil.” FeelsLittlesMadeStillsSeemsEvilWaitingVoiceWalksFashionDevilTinyStaringPetCagesClownSatanicPactKittiesSlinkies Author:Deb Caletti
“Or so we don't think about how we're just vulnerable specks trying to survive on a violent, tumultuous planet, at the mercy of hurricanes and volcanoes and asteroids and terrorists and disease and a million other things. We concentrate on having little thoughts so we don't have BIG THOUGHTS. . . . You've got to ignore the one big truth - life is fatal.” ThinkingTryingLittlesBigsLife IsMillionsPlanetsDiseaseMercyTerroristViolentVulnerableTruth Of LifeHurricanesVolcanoesSpecksAsteroids Author:Deb Caletti
“I'll tell you one thing about me, and that is that I'm not to keen on being bossed around. If, say, my Mom tells me to empty the dishwasher, I like to wait a little bit, you know, not hop up and do it right away, because then it feels more like my own idea. That's a little problematic when you have an actual boss.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesIdeasBitsWaitingMy OwnOne ThingMomLittle BitEmptyMy MomHopsBossDishwashers Author:Deb Caletti
“So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)” LittlesBigsSoundNumbersMillionsStageEasierPagesDancerInternalsBroadwayCaffeinePissed Off Author:Deb Caletti
“This is what I know. Don't settle for 40, 50, or even 80 percent. A relationship-it shouldn't be too small or too tight or even a little scratchy. It shouldn't take up space in your closet out of guilty conscience or convenience or a moment of desire. Do you hear me? It shold be perfect for you. It should be lasting. Wait. wait for 100 percent.” KnowsShouldLittlesMomentsDesireWaitingSpacePerfectPercentConscienceGuiltySettlingLastingClosetsConvenienceGuilty Conscience Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.” PeopleLittlesSaidTurnsWaterSituationHeardDegreesAbusePotDomestic ViolenceFrogsBoilingBad SituationsBoiling Water Book:Stay Source: Stay
“We should have the right to have someone leave when we want, to only allow those in who we want in. But the truth is, people can force their way into your life whenever they choose. If they want to remind you forevermore that they exist, they will. They can reappear in a card or call or a "chance" meeting, they can remember your birthday or the day you met with some innocuous small note. No matter how little they matter in your new life, they can insist on being seen and recognized and remembered.” PeopleIfsWayWantShouldLittlesMatterRememberForceChanceMetsTruth IsShould HaveMeetingsNotesCardsRememberedNew LifeChance Meeting Book:Stay Source: Stay
“I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.” PeopleIfsHumansLittlesHardProblemDiesLeftFiguresScientistLeavingHuman LifeIronicLeaving MeRockets Author:Deb Caletti
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsShouldHeartLittlesPersonsEnoughFactsHandsFightingBehaviorCapableTricksNurseManipulateHelplessnessAdmitting Author:Deb Caletti
“Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.” WantFeelsLittlesFeelingsBitsSpecialFooledOrdinariness Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“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.” WayLittlesBookStoriesReadingWorryConfusionUpset Author:Deb Caletti
