Rejection, though—it could make the loss of someone you weren't even that crazy about feel gut wrenching and world ending.

—Deb Caletti in The Secret Life of Prince Charming

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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...

More quotations from Deb Caletti

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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Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

—Hubert Humphrey

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

—Samuel Butler

It was too hard to fall in love with someone, learn all of their quirks and passions, assume you'd spend the rest of your life with them, and then suddenly have them snatched away forever.

—Caren Lissner in Starting from Square Two

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I don't think you understand how easy it is to make a mistake that will cost you forever.

—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You

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Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.

—John Green in An Abundance of Katherines

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