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"The roads of life are paved wide and skirt the mountains. And these very roads are choked with a steady stream of pathetically pedantic travelers who in reality have no intent of traveling. And if we are to discover the real travelers, much less join them, we will find them out on precarious paths that defy the roads and scale the mountains."
"If I'm chasing the wrong thing, what I'm chasing will end up chasing me. And in the end, I'm less likely to be the one doing the catching."
"I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything."
"Why is it when I pursue the praises of men I find myself with everything that I've looked for but nothing that I need? That's because I have an extraordinary habit of looking for the wrong thing in the wrong place."
"Don't wait for wisdom to come and rescue you, seek it daily."
Explore more quotes by Deb Caletti
"You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store."
"It was strange to have those papers signed. Like any big project or crisis that takes every waking and non - waking moment in your life, it was odd to have it concluded. A move, a college degree, a wedding - something long - strived - for is completed, whatever the outcome, and there is a huge space where it all once was. All that open time now, and a continuing nagging sense that there's something you need to be doing."
"Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever."
"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."
"What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about an unhappy household - that feeling of being perched and listening, the way an animal must feel at night in the dark, assessing danger."
"But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water after walking in the desert. I had made him up. And he could have killed me. You've got to stop the ride sometimes. Stop it and get off."
"What is it about hairdressers? You tell them 'not too short' and some part of their hairdresser brain hears this as 'whack the shit out of it.' If you never say, 'not too short, ' everything is fine. You say it, & it's a guarantee you'll come out ready for the military>"
"Maybe it was wrong, or maybe impossible, but I wanted the truth to be one thing. One solid thing."
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