Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
Deb Caletti
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.”
“We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem, or as bad or good, as vulnerable or as strong, as sweet or as fiesty; we are thickly layered, page upon lying page, behind simple covers. And love - it is not the book itself, but the binding. It can rip us apart or hold us together.”
“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.”
“Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”
“The magic of purpose and of love in its purest form. Not televison love, with its glare and hollow and sequined glint; not sex and allure, all high shoes and high drama, everything both too small and in too much excess, but just love. Love like rain, like the smell of a tangerine, like a surprise found in your pocket.”
“I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center.”
“A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart.”
“...What is more like love than the ocean? You can play in it, drown in it...it can be clear and bright enough to hurt your eyes, or covered in fog, hidden behind a curve of roads and then suddenly there in full glory. It's waves come like breaths, in and out, body stretched to forever in it's possibilities, and yet it's heart lies deep, not fully knowable, inconceivably majestic.”
“It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.”
“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”
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surprise, facade, rain, revelation, quiet, summer, mistaken, love, courage, life, chocolate, fake, forgery, secret, purpose, magic
