Top 100 Katie Kacvinsky Quotes
#1. If you think too much about the future, about seeing me again, you won't exprience anything. You'll just be a slave to time.
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#2. My bookshelf was my favorite part of my room. It had a calming presence. Maybe there was something to be said about the feeling and presence of real books.
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#3. Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did 'improvisation in times of desperation.
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#5. You can't stop people from being
human. We're creative, we're social. People are like water. If you
try to contain them, they find a way to break free.
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#6. You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)
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#7. Black is my favorite color. It's limitless. It's indefinable. It keeps you guessing. When there's nothing to see, you're forced to imagine. It makes every shape, every person more mysterious because you can't see all the details.
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#8. It's just sewing words together. Random words in any order. It doesn't even have to mean anything. It just has to mean something to you.
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#9. Most people hold their fantasies out of reach, as if their desires are a mountain they could never summit. They settle for living at the base of the mountain instead. There aren't as many obstacles, or avalanches, or unexpected delays. But they'll never be able to see the view from the top.
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#10. You see the most when you're not looking for anything in particular ... when you look too hard for something, you get nearsighted because you only see what you want to see.
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#11. I think labeling someone's intelligence with a letter grade isn't a sign of their ability.
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#12. Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work.
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#13. The happiest people aren't necessarily the most successful, or the most popular, or the most talented. They're the ones who are interested in the people around them.
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#14. Maybe, when you meet the right person, it's like meeting a piece of yourself that you never knew existed because somebody had to open it up for you. Pull it out of you. Point it out to you.
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#15. When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it's like a karmic law.
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#16. Justin: "Say hi to Paul Thompson for me," he added.
Madeline: "Garrlgh," I gagged. The corner of his lips curled up.
Justin: "What was that?"
Madeline: "That was vomit creeping up the back of my mouth when you mentioned Paul's name.
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#17. I could hear the boy cheering in the back seat and Justin had a huge smile on his face, his dimples standing out. I squeezed my eyes shut. Maybe I lacked the necessary testosterone levels to be enjoying this.
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#18. What do you do when you meet the love of your life and realize it's all about timing? How do you accept that no matter how perfect you are for each other, circumstances get in the way? How do you compete with that kind of fate?
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#20. <> he asks. I sit down and think about it. I could list a million reasons. Gray sits next to me.
<> I say. <> I stop rambling and look over at Gray. He's smiling. <> he says. <> I say, stunned. It's the greatest compliment he could ever give me.
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#21. I want people to have permission to know me, not unlimited constant access to me.
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#22. I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.
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#23. You don't have to choose sides," he said. "Make
up your own mind and believe that.
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#24. Pain's like water. It finds a way to pus trough any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn to swim to the surface
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#25. Because someday, when your life slows down, you're going to look at all the great things you've done and the people you've touched and you might go down as a hero. But no one would have ever wanted your life. Because you'll be alone.
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#26. But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
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#28. Intuition works closely alongside fate, like they're business partners working together to alter the course of your life.
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#29. You know, there are so many things you can't control in life, like what
happens to you or how people are going to react to what you do.
It's wasted energy to worry about it. But you can control how you
react. That's the trick.
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#30. Kari's really beautiful." "Beauty has its limits," I say. "Hers ends on the surface.
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#32. Dylan doesn't make plans. She unmakes plans. She has planaphobia. The fear of plans.
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#33. Life is supposed to be a risk. It's written everywhere around us. We are meant to take chances. We are meant to explode and shatter and spiral. Even if we break, we'll come back to a still point. We are made that way, just another natural element, if we remember to stay natural.
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#34. And my eyes linger on her body and my mind lingers on her words.
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#35. She tells me life is a story. We can make it a Harlequin romance, a mistery, a memoir. We can make it pamphlet-size or an ongoing series.
"I want mine to be exceptional", she says.
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#36. Besides, there are no secrets. Sooner or later the truth leaks out. That's one thing I've learned in this life.
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#37. It's ironic..here is life passing, like clouds drifting over the sky, yet they don't see what's in front of them. They believe there is something more substantial going on in that little screen in their hands.
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#38. Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.
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#39. There's a reason why stars can only exist in the sky
they're just rockets of light traveling through space, so it feels right to admire their form from a distance. People, solid and living and breathing together in the same world, are not meant to be surround by that much darkness.
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#40. Five bucks for coffee?? Freaking Starbucks. They should change their name to Fivebucks.
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#41. When you grab hold of one thing, you ultimately have to let go of another. Our fingers have spaces between them, just like life, and things fall through. Part of my life was ending so a new part could begin. But first you have to let go. You have to open your fingers and let slip.
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#42. Maybe we're always changing."
"Maybe we're always performing."
"Then who are we really?" I wondered. "At the end of the day, with the lights off, all alone, which of those personalities that we take on and off are real?
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#43. Relationships can be built only if you invest time in people
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#44. It's not convenience that bothers me, it's people's obsession with saving time. Everything's a race. I just don't get who or what we're constantly racing against.
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#45. Obsessing over a boy is like throwing precious time into the garbage, and all I have to show for it is chewed-off fingernails, self-doubt, and emotional distress.
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#46. But how can you be there for someone who doesn't need you? It's like trying to scale a wall without anyone on the top throwing you a rope. You just keep sliding down and eventually your muscles give out, and your energy and your will and your heart.
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#48. Someone's taught me to expect more out of people and never to settle.
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#49. Why is it that people who talk the most sometimes have the least to say?
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#50. I think people are nuts to shut themselves inside all day. We're cutting ourselves off from each other and it's only going to get worse.
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#51. Oh, I just think that a neat house is the sign of a boring person, that's all. And I don't really like to associate with boring people if I can help it.
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#52. What's the fun in always knowing where things will take you?
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#53. You let me be who I am. So many people ask me why I need to take pictures all the time. Why I'm staring at something they can't see. It's like I have to apologize for having eyes. But you've never rushed me. I'm at my best around you. You're my nova. You light me up.
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#54. You can't tie water down. Watern can be difficult to love too, because it moves around anything trying to contain it. It can overflow its banks and lose its sense of home.
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#55. Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.
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#56. I don't want to lose you," he says.
I stop because I finally know what I need to say.
"Gray, I'm not yours to lose.
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#57. Apparently food encourages not only fat cells, but thinking - two things models seem to be missing.
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#58. Parents show you life is a paved road. Friends show you the road isn't there yet, it's waiting for you to carve it out. Parents show you life is a handbook, with rules set in place. Friends show you how to break the rules you're handed.
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#59. I'd rather invest my time collecting memories and friends and love and all the things money can't buy.
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#60. I think music is seasonal. In the summer my taste changes.
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#61. It still hurts, but life is supposed to hurt. Too many people think life is supposed to be easy and perfect all the time. But there is always some hurt. It's part of being alive. You have to accept it's a piece that every single person carries. It's what makes us human.
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#62. What a forced lifestyle our technology, our inventions imposed on our lives when we tried to live synonymously with computers; when we stepped inside their world, we left the natural one behind.
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#63. On the surface he might be callused, but looking through a creative lens, I see layers and textures. He reminds me of a folding chair, closed up and waiting to be shoved in a storage closet. I'm determined to see him unfold.
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#64. Cameras give one person a thousand eyes. They take us light years away. Pictures introduce us to a million strangers. They let us travel to other planets. It's like teleporting. It's the magic that intrigues me.
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#65. So, that's the secret to happiness? Don't tak life seriously?" I ask.
"No," she says. "Take life seriously. That you have to do. Don't take yourself seriously, that's the key. Let it all go. Don't care for a second what people think of you. In fact, go out of your way to keep them guessing.
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#66. Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It's smarter than you'll ever be.
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#67. Music can change your mood instantly. It can make memories feel present and any dream seem tangible.
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#68. What do you want to see?" he asks. What I always want to see. "A place I'll never forget.
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#69. Because from my personal experience, Dylan, falling in love with you is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. It's fun as hell, a rush of adrenaline, until the inevitable crash comes where you leave and my heart splatters all over the ground.
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#70. I thought I was going to be the first person to die from gum build up clogging my stomach cavity
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#71. What is the girl version of a tool? An accessory? Yes! That's what she is. A safe, simple accessory.
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#72. Live a little," she tells me. "You're never going to experience anything if you wait around for perfect conditions.
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#73. Hope and courage and risk dwell inside of us on an uncharted island and if we learn to look for it and tap into it, our possibilities are endless.
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#75. Maybe it's not the doors that open in our lives, but the doors that close that define us. That guide us. Because they force us to move on. Instead of thinking about what we lose, look at what we can gain.
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#77. Justin: "Girls like compliments, don't they?"
Madeline: "I think everyone does if it's sincere. Not just girls.
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#78. Trying to change someone is easier than trying to accept them It's how we're programmed
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#79. I can't believe she tricked me into spending another day with her. I have a life, I want to tell her. I have four episodes of Myth Busters to catch up on. Okay, I don't have a life.
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#80. So why sit around wasting time dwelling on what could have gone wrong? Shouldn't we be celebrating all the things that went right?
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#81. Let's just say there's only so much of life that can be taught by pushing a bunch of buttons and looking at a screen.
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#82. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous." ~Elaine to Maddie
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#83. I started to teach him how to swim only to leave him in the deep end too soon.
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#84. If you only focus on the things you leave behind, you'll never go anywhere.
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#85. He was like a book, where each chapter picks up pace until you can't put it down. That's when you know you've made a friend - when you want to read more of his story.
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#86. Life is about mindfulness. It's about being in the moment, being aware.
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#87. Because if you're lucky enough to have people in your life that make you happy, that inspire you, that move you, you need to devour each moment you have together because you never know how many of those moments you have left. These people are sacred.
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#88. It's easy to be far away from people you love when you think everyone's happy. But when you find out someone needs you and you can't be there, it makes the distance grow claws and teeth and start to gnaw at your heart.
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#89. I'm inlove with him. Completely. Absolutely. Tragically.
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#90. When you get too excited about the possibilities, you don't stop to consider the consequences. Just when you get too cocky, life has a way of putting you in your place.
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#91. I needed him to know how I felt so I just kissed him as long as he would let me. I used to think talking was all about words. But you can say so much more with your eyes and your fingers and your touch. Words just make us one-dimensional.
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#92. People don't change. We only convince ourselves they change. We deny what we can't accept. We are only as smart as we are willing to see the truth.
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#93. Every decision we make in life, every new relationship, every job, every change, is a free fall. And it's not the dive that will kill us. It's the fear of taking the jump that hurts the most. The secret is to believe we are all capable of flight.
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#94. People become pieces inside of you. They can fill you up and make you a whole.
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#95. First I thought she was crazy. Now I'm crazy about her.
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#96. I don't know for sure where I'm going to end up.
But I know who I love. And I'm figuring out that might be enough to live for.
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#97. No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love
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#99. He acted as solid as stone but when it comes to emotions, we're all made out of glass
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#100. It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her.
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