Kaitlin

“Look right at it. Know you can." Dad said. "Look right at that fear. Fear is the biggest bullshitter.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“Another person is, at the heart of it, unknowable. And if you cannot know a person enough to always guess what they’re capable of, you certainly cannot know them enough to hold them in your hands, to control their behavior, to fight, manipulate, cajole or nurse or soothe them into doing what they should or shouldn’t.
People will do what they will do. The trick is admitting your own helplessness about that little fact.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay

“It was all the things you could never understand and could never possess that made you ache.”
― Deb Caletti, Stay