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. It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.

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#3. Knowledge can hurt because you can't turn away from things
anymore. You can't pretend you're blind to what's happening," he
said. "It's a lot easier to ignore something you don't want to accept
than to face it.

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#4. 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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#5. You can use power for good or bad, for control or freedom. You grew up watching your dad abuse it one way and it made you take the opposite direction. That's what we all think. Everything's about balance. That's what sustains life. Maybe your role is to keep your dad in check?

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#6. What would you call your decorating style?" I asked. "Boring-bachelor? Or messy-loner? He looked over at me. "More like distracted-about-my-detainee-girlfriend," he said.

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#7. It's good for you to write down your thoughts. It's
therapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think about
life.

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#8. But I always tell Justin, I'd rather be off my rocker than in one.

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#9. It's easy to think people have no business giving you advice when it isn't the advice you want to hear.

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#10. Lying is manipulation. I prefer to call what I did 'improvisation in times of desperation.

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#11. Trust comes by earning it, not expecting it.

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#12. 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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#13. I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love.

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#14. I rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy."
He thought about this. "Maybe he's normal and we're the crazy ones. Maybe everyone should talk to themselves. Maybe we're all just afraid of what we'd say.

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#15. It's easy to delete the truth when you live behind your own permanent censor.

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#16. You're not saving lives, Dad. You can't save lives when no one's living anymore. (Maddie)

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#17. I wouldn't want to be that smart" Clare added. "Sometimes the more you know, the harder it is to enjoy life. It's like you lose curiosity or something.

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#18. 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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#19. There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you.

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#20. 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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#21. Most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid.

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#22. He was moving more than his life. He was moving his heart. Putting it closer than down the road from me. He was putting it right in my hands. Right where I'd wanted it since the first day I met him.

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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. I also like to escape inside their world,
tucked behind their colorful spines. It forces me to fully invest
my mind into what I'm doing, not just my ears or my eyes.

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#26. People can't offer you a piece; they need to offer themselves whole, or you will always be asking for more, wishing for more. A piece is never enough.

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#27. But almost every story begins with another story's end.

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#28. I think labeling someone's intelligence with a letter grade isn't a sign of their ability.

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#29. I don't want to use Amber, I can't. It's not fair to her. I am not looking for someone to fill my heart or my mind or my bed, because when you are lucky enough to know exactly what you want then fuck the rehearsal. No one else will ever compare.

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#30. Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work.

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#31. It's strange how a single person can be as nourishing, as necessary as food to make you feel alive

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#32. 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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#33. Happiness is just an illusion. And any attempt to achieve it is the ultimate cause of your plight

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#34. 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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#35. Next time you take directions from your heart, plan on getting lost.

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#36. When you agree to help one person, you ultimately have to disappoint someone else; it's like a karmic law.

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#37. 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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#38. Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it's a place you need to find, like it's scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

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#39. 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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#40. 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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#41. I love you and fried eggs and you more.

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#42. This life had always been my routine but now it felt like a cage.

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#43. If we could only see internal beauty, what would people look like? Who would the supermodels be?

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#44. Ethics is the enemy of discovery. What you call ethics, I call the rape of science.

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#45. The rain picks up outside. It hits and slams against the window, but I think it sounds like music
a light mix of tambourine and cymbals. The wind sounds like a guitar, all low, melancholy notes. Thunder takes the drums. I'm quiet as I listen to the song.

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#46. Sleep doesn't come to people who have a heavy apology resting on their heart. Sleep knows better.

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#47. Sometimes all you can do is react (Kevin Freeman)

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#48. <> 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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#49. The way fire moves, it consumes you. It's so beautiful you want to touch it but you know you can't. I think that's part of its draw.

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#50. By the way, the other reason I agreed to help you is because I love your eyes. You have the most beautiful eyes. It's my weakness.

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#51. What kind of parents willingly name their kid Spud? They should be arrested for douchebaggery.

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#52. I want people to have permission to know me, not unlimited constant access to me.

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#53. Family has the greatest influence, but friends make the greatest impact.

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#54. I was pathetic. Who gets aroused for getting first aid

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#55. If you never leave where you came from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are.

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#56. Once we know our elements we know our strengths, but that is nothing compared with our weaknesses. Our strengths define us, but our weaknesses limit us. It's a constant tug of war in ourselves.

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#57. 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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#58. I hated how my parents would talk about me like i wasnt watching.

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#59. I think the hardest words are 'I need help'. You need to be pretty brave to admit it.

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#60. You don't have to choose sides," he said. "Make
up your own mind and believe that.

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#61. 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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#62. 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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#63. If you don't consider failing, you won't.

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#64. 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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#65. If you can't acclimate, you disintegrate.

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#66. I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But I just beat her up with words.

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#67. I wish I could catch the words and reel them back in my mouth to safely store away in my Shut the Hell Up, You Idiot file.

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#68. Intuition works closely alongside fate, like they're business partners working together to alter the course of your life.

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#69. 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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#70. My idea of perfect is being too busy laughing at yourself to care what you look like

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#71. You need to be able to fill that space on your own, Maddie. You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous.

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#72. Kari's really beautiful." "Beauty has its limits," I say. "Hers ends on the surface.

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#73. Life's too short to hold back forgiveness.

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#74. Dylan doesn't make plans. She unmakes plans. She has planaphobia. The fear of plans.

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#75. 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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#76. And my eyes linger on her body and my mind lingers on her words.

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#77. 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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#78. 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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#79. But if love were convenient there wouldn't be millions of songs and movies and books obsessing over it, or therapists and doctors consoling all the people falling in and out of it.

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#80. Life is three-dimensional, but there are other dimensions we can't see, can only feel, and those are the ones I want to explore.

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#81. It appears time has two different effects on the heart," I say, still looking at the leaves. "It either makes it swell with love or shrivel with bitterness.

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#82. If you never leave where you come from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created? That's why I left. I think people need to leave in order to find their potential.

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#83. Fate can only get you so far. It can put you down the right path or introduce you to a particular person, but the rest is up to you. Even the strongest storm need a wind to carry them in.

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#84. 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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#85. Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time.

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#86. Life is too short to waste time on people who don't lift you up, who don't inspire you-they'll eventually drain you.

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#87. Closure. That's probably the most unrealistic word in the English vocabulary. It's up there with heartbreak, pain, loss, and abandonment, all these things that you're supposed to get over and mend and heal but really, do you ever get over those moments?

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#88. Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.

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#89. Maybe being alike isn't what's best. It's bringing out the best in each other that matters.

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#90. I'm fine with being alone," he insists. "I like the company I keep. Most people need constant distractions, because if they slow down long enough to evaluate their lives, it makes them internally combust. Like if you folded them inside out, you'd find a huge monster inside. A train wreck.

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#91. 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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#92. Five bucks for coffee?? Freaking Starbucks. They should change their name to Fivebucks.

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#93. It's not so much about moving on, is it?" he said. "It's more about letting go. There lies the challenge.

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#94. 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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#95. She explained sometimes the story is supposed to be missing because it's still waiting to be written.

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#96. Sometimes, online, I feel like we're not real People. We're more like characters. [...] It's more like living inside a reality show all the time. We edit out Scenes so we can appear a certain way. It makes me wonder if I really know anybody.

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#97. 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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#98. I couldn't sleep," she confesses.
"Why not?" I ask.
She smiles at me. It's this sweet, innocent smile, and it makes my heart stammer.
"You didn't kiss me today," she says. "And I wanted you to.

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#99. Relationships can be built only if you invest time in people

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#100. 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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