Top 100 Quotes About Deb
#1. If you'll all just follow me over to our top sector here, I'll start your guided tour."
Ellis got up, then followed Riley and Heather, who was dragging her feet, as they fell in behind Deb. "Are there going to be snacks?" he
asked. "I do my best work with snacks.
Sarah Dessen
#2. And why had Deb's last boyfriend dumped her?
I dumped him.
Maybe you didn't French-kiss him enough.
I promise you that wasn't it.
Tell me how many times a day you kissed, and I'll say if it was enough.
Four hundred.
Not enough.
Miranda July
#3. I returned the vial to the book, then surveyed the damage to my library. Angry as I was at Deb's betrayal, seeing the bullet-ridden texts was worse. It was one thing to shoot at me, but to destroy my books
Jim C. Hines
#4. Hockey has given me everything, most importantly it brought me to Swift Current, where I met my wife Deb.
Joe Sakic
#5. Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb
Red Tash
#6. Through love, God paves the way to reconciliation. - Deb Wuethrich -
Gary Chapman
#7. Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called.
"Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong."
"I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.
Sarah Dessen
#8. I think that's nice, and if I could have feelings at all I would have them for Deb.
Jeff Lindsay
#9. Deb shoots Deano a hard look and grits her teeth so hard she snaps the end of her cigar which flies out the window.
Mac orders, "Deb, stop!"
Deb says, "It's just a scratch. I'll worry about it later.
David McKoy
#10. Deb Zane, our casting director on the Hunger Games was very sanguine, from the beginning, about just blocking out what everybody else says that they want.
Nina Jacobson
#11. As Deb Lemire, president of the Association for Size Diversity and Health, says, If shame worked, there'd be no fat people.
Kelly McGonigal
#12. Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church ...
John Geddes
#13. His latest theory about his dealings with women isn't that he's lost his reason or that women are illogical (Deb, for instance, displays exemplary thought processes;) it's just that a certain vital part of the interface between them is strongly encrypted and requires some workaround.
Adam Felber
#14. Deb was funny and smart, and regarding her looks, she was funny and smart. Tall, skinny, with a long nose, she had a distinctly bony presence. But her smile was warm, and she was unfailingly polite, qualities that go a long way in the world.
Terry Maggert
#15. And so Deb is the only person in the world who gives a rusty possum fart whether I live or die.
Jeff Lindsay
#16. If today shows no results, that doesn't mean the past wasn't working or the present isn't working. It just means we see only part of the picture. Faith believes God is working in every part of the process.
Deb Brammer
#17. I've developed several serious policy proposals to create jobs, reform Washington and reduce spending.
Deb Fischer
#18. Sometimes you're sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they're only their simple, goofy selves.
Deb Caletti
#19. If you think about becoming a writer, that's just really one of the big dreams I had. It's really important to have those dreams and pursue your passions.
Deb Caletti
#20. One thing you can say about daughters and mothers - like it or not, they know the truth about each other.
Deb Caletti
#21. I've always felt that a heart is meant to be given to only one person at a time. And, too, when it moves on, it moves on for good.
Deb Caletti
#22. I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others."
"And?" I asked.
"Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves.
Deb Caletti
#23. There's a Reasonable Explanation' is definitely a place you can go, a destination.
Deb Caletti
#24. Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
Deb Caletti
#25. Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he'd said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.
Deb Caletti
#26. Good can sit in the distance, just beyond your view, waiting, until you go toward it.
Deb Caletti
#27. It occurred to me then that a lot of life was either about wanting and not having, or having and not wanting.
Deb Caletti
#28. We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I had to move a mountain or something.
Deb Caletti
#29. It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.
Deb Caletti
#30. I would have spoken, had my heart not been in my throat
Deb Caletti
#32. A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh.
Deb Caletti
#33. Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.
Deb Caletti
#34. I don't stop to imagine home and the people in it, because this is so far from home, I am another person entirely.
Deb Caletti
#35. In a lifetime, the recipe always needs amending - more of this, a little less of that, what to do now that the cake has fallen.
Deb Caletti
#36. If you don't participate, you're just taking up oxygen. (Bunny)
Life is a banquet. Approach it with hunger. (Chuck)
Deb Caletti
#37. If you look up "charming" in the dictionary, you'll see that it not only has references to strong attraction, but to spells and magic. Then again, what are liars if not great magicians?
Deb Caletti
#38. Blessed books - they're a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
Deb Caletti
#39. You wanted more from people sometimes. And sometimes,you wanted more from yourself.
Deb Caletti
#40. We are all a volume on the shelf of the ... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
Deb Caletti
#41. It doesn't matter if we're young. If you love someone, and it's right ... We can make it the whole way, Crick.
Deb Caletti
#42. It makes you realize how basically everything we do comes down to a) mating or b) competing for resources. It's just like Animal Planet, only we've got Cover Girl and Victoria's Secret instead of colored feathers and fancy markings, and the violence occurs at the Nordstrom's Half-Yearly Sale.
Deb Caletti
#43. Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write and what to write and what not to write.
Deb Caletti
#44. This is not to say I don't feel my own grief, which can hit powerfully at unexpected times. It's just that the telling does not automatically bring on my own upset, as people assume. I deal more with their reaction than they do with mine, and so you have to choose your timing.
Deb Caletti
#45. Ah. Falling in love is such a magical time." "We just met, Damian. I'm not in love." Damian laughs. "I am going to have you clean the stables today, since you are already so full of shit.
Deb Caletti
#46. We forget that just because something is honest it is not necessary the truth.
Deb Caletti
#48. Elijah's wearing white shorts and a bright green shirt and plaid sneakers. People who dress like they're in a perfume ad shouldn't be trusted, in my opinion. They're disingenuous with floral overtones.
Deb Caletti
#49. Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.
Deb Caletti
#50. Knowing takes its own time. I swear sometimes you've gotta get really, really uncomfortable before it shows up.
Deb Caletti
#51. The hurt affects your ability to go forward.
Deb Caletti
#52. I've never met a popcorn ball I didn't like.
Deb Caletti
#53. But I didn't want to share everything yet ... I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less - it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.
Deb Caletti
#54. I kept trying to talk myself out of my second thoughts when they were trying to help me. My advice? When it comes to relationships, second thoughts should be promoted.
Deb Caletti
#55. Whipped cream can remind you why it's good to be alive.
Deb Caletti
#56. I vow ... to not let the back & forth of forgiveness interrupt the steadiness of love.
Deb Caletti
#58. Because words were hills and valleys you traveled, so lovely sometimes that they hurt your eyes.
Deb Caletti
#59. Truth is a slippery concept. It changes shape according to who's speaking it and it never looks the same to any two people.
Deb Baker
#60. All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.
Deb Caletti
#61. You ... You had always made the future feel safe. As long as you were in it too, beside me, I could be okay.
Deb Caletti
#62. No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think.
Deb Caletti
#63. It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.
Deb Fischer
#64. He's good, all right," Mom said. "But I guess there's something else. About being sure. Sure about anything. Right comes with right timing.
Deb Caletti
#65. Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.
Deb Caletti
#66. Maybe a person's world can grow bigger in all the right ways, not too wide that it becomes shallow, just large enough to preserve its depth.
Deb Caletti
#67. Nice is akin to not walking under ladders or stepping on cracks. It's a superstitious hedging of bets. A part of you thinks your good behavior will ward off evil. Well, apparently that's not true.
Deb Caletti
#68. What's in your past doesn't matter. Neither does what you plan to do at some future time. What matters is what you do with this moment. You have the power to change your life for the better starting right this minute.
Deb Purdy
#69. If reading counted as a sport, I'd be a gold medalist.
Deb Caletti
#70. You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book.
Deb Caletti
#71. I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.
Deb Caletti
#72. It was the feeling of not belonging, and longing for your familiar couch and your familiar TV with all those comforting TV people who couldn't see you.
Deb Caletti
#73. He's alright. He's fine, Dad says, his usual line whenever Oliver gets hurt. It means: Go away. Don't baby him. Don't show too much compassion. The other dads do this too. It's some kind of group hysteria, based on some fatherly fear that says compassion equals homosexuality.
Deb Caletti
#74. You're an asshole alive, you're still an asshole dead.
Deb Caletti
#75. Wanting things for the wrong reasons can turn anyone's life into a marshmallow on a stick over a hot fire: impossibly messy and eventually consumed, one way or another.
Deb Caletti
#76. I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.
Deb Caletti
#77. It is one of those moments where there is so much to say that there is nothing to say, no adequate words, anyway, to speak it all.
Deb Caletti
#78. More than anything, I like just being there while he works, doing what he knows to do, in his own place.
Deb Caletti
#79. 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.
Deb Caletti
#80. If you gotta scratch the itch, scratch it. Or, if you want to do away with the day job, scratch, itch or no!
Deb E. Howell
#81. The things we do for our friends.
Deb Baker
#82. The truest thing about truth was that it needed to be seen no matter what it was and no matter how it came to you.
Deb Caletti
#83. Maybe we all just wanted someone to believe in. That's all each of us wanted, and it should be so simple, but it never was simple.
Deb Caletti
#84. Keep the faith, keep the faith, keep working.
Deb Fischer
#85. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.
Deb Caletti
#86. We try to hold a storm in our own fist but we are not that strong.
Deb Caletti
#87. There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone.
Deb Caletti
#88. I liked the idea of bouncy, open-air Jeeps and I liked the outfits with all the pockets, only I didn't really want to live in Africa and be shot by poachers/get malaria/get stabbed to death.
Deb Caletti
#89. People like to have something to turn down, though. They want to be able to say no to some things, because it makes their yes more meaningful. (pg. 25)
Deb Caletti
#90. But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.
Deb Caletti
#91. I tended to give a book a chance and another chance and another, sometimes seeing it all the way to the end, still hoping for for it turn out different. Maybe I was confused about what you owed a book. What you owed people, for that matter, real or fictional.
Deb Caletti
#92. 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.
Deb Caletti
#93. Control was just wishful thinking, and you controlled things to hedge your bets, to be safe, to guard against loss.
Deb Caletti
#94. Holy Christ fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor " he chuckled.
Deb Caletti
#95. I shouldn't have to be a liar to make someone love me. I shouldn't be so afraid of losing someone that I'll do anything to make them stay.
Deb Caletti
#96. TURKEYS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR millions of years. They can fly at fast as fifty-five miles per hour and run flat out at twenty.
Deb Baker
#97. You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say ... Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
Deb Caletti
#98. Against the sky, she is exquisitely elsewhere.
Deb Caletti
#99. An investigator has to have a defense arsenal. Heck, every woman alive should have one if she wants to stay that way.
Deb Baker
#100. Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing.
Deb Caletti
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