When you're not sure whether you're in love with someone or not, the answer is not.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

About Deb Caletti

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Deb Caletti (born June 16, 1963) is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. Caletti is a National Book Award finalist, and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book medalist, as well as the recipient of other numerous awards including the PEN USA finalist award, the Josette Frank Award...

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You have ordinary moments and ordinary moments and more ordinary moments, and then, suddenly, there is something monumental right there. You have past and future colliding in the present, your own personal Big Bang, and nothing will ever be the same.

—Deb Caletti in Stay

You either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you don't even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menu's without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something very expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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 in The Six Rules of Maybe

You can forget that other people carry pieces of your own story around in their heads. I've always thought—put together all those random pieces from everyone whose ever known you, from your parents to the guy who once sat next to you on a bus, and you'd probably see a fuller version of your life than you even did while living it.

—Deb Caletti in Stay

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

—Deb Caletti in The Six Rules of Maybe

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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

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You see, love is a funny thing. There are no guarantees, just the day-to-day and the moment. You make vows, hope for the best, and do your damnedest to love the person you're with.

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A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

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Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority.… All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.

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