Katie Kacvinsky Quotes & Sayings

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

Live a little," she tells me. "You're never going to experience anything if you wait around for perfect conditions. — Katie Kacvinsky

I crossed a line by making his family's personal business my own. But isn't that what friendship is? Isn't that what love is? It's more than caring and laughing and inspiring. It's about taking hurt and anger off people's shoulders and helping to carry the weight. It's more important to love people on the worst days than their best. — Katie Kacvinsky

I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But I just beat her up with words. — Katie Kacvinsky

What is the girl version of a tool? An accessory? Yes! That's what she is. A safe, simple accessory. — Katie Kacvinsky

I thought I was going to be the first person to die from gum build up clogging my stomach cavity — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

In my baggy jeans and messy hair, I know I don't fit into this plastic palace. But I don't want to fit in. That's when no one notices you. You leave a longer impression when you're brave enough to stand out. — Katie Kacvinsky

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? — Katie Kacvinsky

People become pieces inside of you. They can fill you up and make you a whole. — Katie Kacvinsky

Maybe being alike isn't what's best. It's bringing out the best in each other that matters. — Katie Kacvinsky

lifes to short to say maybe. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change. — Katie Kacvinsky

You are the strangest girl I've ever met," he said, like he thought I was joking. He picked up his water bottle and gave me a sideways glance. "Have you ever kissed anybody?" he asked, and took a sip.
I smirked. "There aren't a whole lot of opportunities in the digital world. I did practice on my hand once. It didn't do anything for me."
Justin coughed on the water he was swallowing and I slapped my hand over my mouth.
"Did I just say that out loud?" I mumbled.
He was half coughing, half laughing. "Yes, you did," he managed to say.
"Delete, delete, delete," I said, and pushed an imaginary button in the air. "I really miss that feature."
"No, that's the good stuff. People always want to delete the good stuff." His eyes lit up. "That's a cool idea, though. What would you say, right now, if you could immediately delete it, so no one read it? — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you. — Katie Kacvinsky

Apparently food encourages not only fat cells, but thinking - two things models seem to be missing. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

So why sit around wasting time dwelling on what could have gone wrong? Shouldn't we be celebrating all the things that went right? — Katie Kacvinsky

Kari's really beautiful." "Beauty has its limits," I say. "Hers ends on the surface. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

What about us? He looks at me. Was there ever really an us? He asks. Or just a me, and a you, and these random moments when our lives accidently collide? Maybe that's it for us. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

It's amazing how far you're willing to go when someone believes in you — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

You can always make time for people. The point is, you have to want to. — Katie Kacvinsky

You mean in the past twenty-four hours, since I've been kidnapped, drugged, shot at, almost killed several times, you didn't see our long, loving gazes pass back and forth? — Katie Kacvinsky

Because that's the point, nothing is ever permanent. We're just being brainwashed to think there isn't more out there. Here's the truth: your situation is never permanent. It's what you make it. Life isn't solid, it's fluid. It changes. You say we're stuck but that's a hopeless way to look at it. It's like saying we should give up. — Katie Kacvinsky

I suffer from freak creative outbursts," I say, which is true, and his mouth starts to twitch. "That's what you call lying? — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

Jax's eyes fell to my shoulder, and I realised he was looking at my hair. "Nice colour," he said.
"Thanks."
"Is that your rebellion flare?" he asked.
I couldn't help it. I laughed again. "It's rated number two for 'how to scare your dad' products, online."
"Right under piercings," he said.
"Actually, I think pregnancy tests are number one," I said, and he laughed.
"And we can't forget tattoos," Jax offered.
"I've got that one covered." I raised my wrist with a smile. I had been waiting for this moment for a long time. — Katie Kacvinsky

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

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

I was pathetic. Who gets aroused for getting first aid — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

When it comes to technology, humans are as easy to train as rats in a cage. — Katie Kacvinsky

It's dying," I say. "When the center is exposed like that, it doesn't have a chance."
"But it's beautiful," she points out, I stare at the shriveling cactus and try to see the beauty in it.
"That's the way I want to go out," she decides.
"What?" I ask. "Torn up and ripped open?"
She shakes her head. "Totally exposed, with no regrets. You can tell this cactus lived; it has the battle scars to prove it. Why go out looking perfect and put together? It means you didn't experience anything. You didn't take any risks. — Katie Kacvinsky

Sounds are three-dimensional, just like images. They come at you from every direction. — Katie Kacvinsky

Sleep doesn't come to people who have a heavy apology resting on their heart. Sleep knows better. — Katie Kacvinsky

How did you get in here?"
He opened up his arms. "Easy. I jumped from a plane onto your roof, disengaged the security grid in your basement, crawled into your house through an air vent, cut the security wires on your wall screens, crawled back outside, unlocked a sky window, slid through, and here I am."
I raised a single eyebrow.
"I knocked on the door and your mum let me in. Crazy, right? — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love — Katie Kacvinsky

I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love. — Katie Kacvinsky

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

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

Maybe that's what love is all about. Being humble enough to admit you can't make it on your own. You need a person in order to call a place home. You need love to save you from yourself. You need to love another person so you give a little something every day. — Katie Kacvinsky

Someone's taught me to expect more out of people and never to settle. — Katie Kacvinsky

Think about our bodies. We're a chain of veins and organs and tehy're all interconnected. If something isn't going right in one area, the whole system can get out of whack. That's teh way I see the world. We're all connected. I don't see myself as this separate entity. I see things in a much larger scale. Everything I do directly affects another person, all the way down the chain. Every person I help can help another; we're all connected. Change happens one person at a time. And I want to commit my life to seeing that through. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

But I always tell Justin, I'd rather be off my rocker than in one. — Katie Kacvinsky

It's cruel what I love most about Dylan is the very reason why I can't have her. — Katie Kacvinsky

But how far do you go for love? How much of your life do you give up for a single person? And how much do you let yourself change? When you stop being yourself, who will you become? — Katie Kacvinsky

Some people try to tell you the things you want in life are out of your grasp, while others lift you up on their shoulders and help you reach them. I may not know a lot, but I prefer to fill my life with people who let me climb on top of their shoulders, not people who try to keep me planted on the ground. — Katie Kacvinsky

Music can change your mood instantly. It can make memories feel present and any dream seem tangible. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

What does agonizical mean?" she asks. I hold up my hands like it's obvious. "To be consumed with shock and denial at unrequited love from the man who is supposed to be your soul mate, — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

A single kiss can be one of the craziest things you ever do. — Katie Kacvinsky

Who's that?" I asked him.
"Probably Noah's latest groupie," Clare offered.
"Don't talk about your mom that way," Pat responded. — Katie Kacvinsky

All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control. — Katie Kacvinsky

How am I?"
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"Sometimes it's a rush, like skydiving and other times it's just a smooth ride, like floating in the middle of a calm lake. It's like standing next to a hot fire that's shooting sparks, or walking on the sun and then rolling in the snow. It's like plate tectonics and hailstorms and lighting and earthquakes and hurricane-force winds all happening at once but then everything suddenly stops moving and your mind draws a blank and everything's really peaceful. It's like your mind explodes and all that's left inside your body is heat. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

Most people were motivated not by what they want but what they want to avoid. — Katie Kacvinsky

I'd rather invest my time collecting memories and friends and love and all the things money can't buy. — Katie Kacvinsky

Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

If we could only see internal beauty, what would people look like? Who would the supermodels be? — Katie Kacvinsky

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? — Katie Kacvinsky

Hey, God, did I do something to piss you off? Because I'm starting to think you enjoy twisting the knife in my heart every chance you get. If too much happiness dares to encroach on my life, does some siren go off up there? Uh-oh, Gray's too happy right now. We can't have that. Time to shit all over his life again. — Katie Kacvinsky

Her mom showed her that when life hands you tragedy, you can do two things with it. You can let it kick you down and make you weak and turn you into a victim. Or you can have hope that you'll get through it and there's still something amazing to live for.
Dylan tells me victims don't make it very far in life. — Katie Kacvinsky

It's hard to accept that you've missed out on a person, that all you'll ever know of them are pieced-together stories. It's not like missing out on a party or a concert-those are temporary experiences, and you'll have other opportunities. But this is permanent. It's like being robbed of something valuable you never had the privilege to own. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

We are shaped so much by the events in our lives, but even more than that, we're shaped by the people that come in and out of our lives. — Katie Kacvinsky

Dylan doesn't make plans. She unmakes plans. She has planaphobia. The fear of plans. — Katie Kacvinsky

We're all looking for a rhythm, a movement that isn't forced, that feels right. I wanted to be more surefooted. I was still searching for the perfect pace. — Katie Kacvinsky

You should never have to rely on another person to make you feel whole. That life is dangerous." ~Elaine to Maddie — Katie Kacvinsky

I wasn't born to love you. I was born to lose you. You are my sad song. My melancholy mix. You were my past until you crashed into my present. But you will never be my future. — Katie Kacvinsky

I hated how my parents would talk about me like i wasnt watching. — Katie Kacvinsky

I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why this happened. — Katie Kacvinsky

Besides, there are no secrets. Sooner or later the truth leaks out. That's one thing I've learned in this life. — Katie Kacvinsky

Thoughts are circular, they don't take you anywhere. They don't have feet-they can't gain any ground. They can trap you if you don't eventually stand up and make a move. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

Why is it that people who talk the most sometimes have the least to say? — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

When your world's become one person, how do you prepare to let her go? How do you get over someone you know you'll never forget? — Katie Kacvinsky

Life's too short to hold back forgiveness. — Katie Kacvinsky

Ethics is the enemy of discovery. What you call ethics, I call the rape of science. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

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. — Katie Kacvinsky

There are three things I look for in a person. And you're the only person I've met in the world that has all of them. — Katie Kacvinsky

I hate that I can't take back what I said. I would never hit Dylan. I would never hurt her. But just beat her up with words. — Katie Kacvinsky

We'll never realize our potential if we always live inside the boundaries of what we fear. Teaching society to be afraid and stay tucked safely behind their locked doors is not the answer to human problems. It only conceals the problem, like a bandage. It doesn't fix it. Giving the problem open air and room to breathe, to mix with other elements, is what helps it heal. — Katie Kacvinsky

more important to love people on their worst days than their best. — Katie Kacvinsky