“I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.”

American writer of young adult and adult fiction

Deb Caletti is an American writer of young adult and adult fiction. She has been a National Book Award finalist and a Michael L. Printz Honor Book medalist, and her work has also received several other awards. Her novels often draw on the Pacific Northwest, and her young adult fiction is noted for taking on difficult subjects usually associated with adult literature. Her first adult novel, "He's Gone," was published in 2013, and she has since written more books for adult readers as well as many titles for teens.