“If your life truths have to be protected like some people keep their couches in plastic then ciao. have a nice life. if we bump into eachoter at Target, i'm the one buying the sour gummy worms and thats all you need to know about me.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsNiceBuyingTargetPlasticTruth Of LifeProtectedWormsCouchesBumpsSourNice LifeGummies Book:Wild Roses Source: Wild Roses
“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.” NeedsRealEyePaintingMastersAnd LoveMistakenForgery Book:Honey, Baby, Sweetheart Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.” NeedsMindDifferentMomentsGivenWishWorryDoubtOne ThingBallsBlueCalmForgottenPassingPassingsChestsStillnessSteelRestlessAngstUncommonNumbnessBreathlessNaggingPassing Out Author:Deb Caletti
“Sometimes that´s all you need…, to know it´s not broken. To know you’re still whole and that you’ll heal.” KnowsNeedsStillsSometimesWholeBrokenHeal Book:Stay Source: Stay
“A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat” NeedsFeelsShouldPersonsSometimesShowsHandsPastSpecialHearingFeel GoodThroatNeedyGrippingYour FreedomGuardingMake You Feel Good Book:Stay Source: Stay
“At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsArtMightActionLife IsLyingWishBehindsStruggleHonestRootsBeing HonestTelling The TruthLife Struggle Author:Deb Caletti
“Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too, too good at shutting it up.” NeedsTryingSpeakTruth IsEmpathyEdges Author:Deb Caletti
“Love was also an easy word, used carelessly. Felons and creeps could offer it coated in sugar, and users could dangle it so enticingly that you wouldn't notice that it had things attached - heavy things, things like pity and need, that were weighty as anchors and iron beams and just as impossible to get out from underneath.” NeedsUsedEasyImpossibleOffersHeavyPityIronSugarUsersCreepsAnchorsBeamFelonsHeavy Things Author:Deb Caletti
“I grow green beans in my garden. The one thing I know about harvesting them is that you need to train your eyes to see the beans. At first it all looks like leaves, until you see one bean and then another and another. If you want clarity, too, you have to look hard. You have to look under things and look from different angles. You'll see what you need to when you do that. A hundred beans, suddenly.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsFirstsLooksDifferentHardEyeGrowsOne ThingHundredGardenGreenTrainClarityAngleBeansDifferent AnglesGreen Beans Book:The Secret Life of Prince Charming Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming
“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.” WayNeedsGivingSeemsMightKindnessCrySurprisingSurprising Things Book:Stay Source: Stay
“Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.” NeedsLongLyingForceWaterPowerfulWindForces Of Nature Author:Deb Caletti
“Love." She looked at me with those blue eyes. "Isn't it astonishing how confused and complicated such a small,simple word is? It attracts so many other things, doesn't it, that stick to it like barnacles on rock...fear, guilt. Need. You can't even see the rock anymore. I imagine love in its purest form is a rare thing.” NeedsEyeFormSimpleImagineRocksBlueGuiltSticksComplicatedConfusedNeed YouAstonishingBlue EyesRare ThingsSimple WordsBarnaclesSmall Simple Author:Deb Caletti
