11 Inspiring Quotes from The Six Rules of Maybe (by Deb Caletti)

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The Six Rules of Maybe Quotes

Sometimes you’re sure dogs have some secret, superior intelligence, and other times you know they’re only their simple, goofy selves.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


Most of our parents wanted the best for us, I knew, but we also wanted the best for them.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


I’ve wished for things and never really had the chance…It’s time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You’ve got to know what you want, then…go.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of nature, the push of water or wind. You could keep it out only so long, but it had its own will and its own needs, and maybe you could keep it at bay with lies, but not for long, not for always.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


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>

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


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.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


If happiness shouldn’t make you so miserable, misery shouldn’t make you so happy.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


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, The Six Rules of Maybe


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, The Six Rules of Maybe


You can hold a secret, hold it so far in that it drives nearly every thought and every move you make- your very heartbeat, almost.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe


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

— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe