Top 150 Caroline Kepnes Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it’s their birthday because Facebook told them.”

— Caroline Kepnes

52. “All of life is slightly dependent on magic. So is death.”

— Caroline Kepnes

53. “I own every book Stephen King has ever written.” “That’s great. That’s something to be proud of.” But did you read them, fuckface?”

— Caroline Kepnes

54. “You like words and I know words.”

— Caroline Kepnes

55. “My middle school health teacher told us that you can hold eye contact for ten seconds before scaring or seducing someone.”

— Caroline Kepnes

56. “You see Elliot in Hannah scam his way to be near his sister-in-law and you call that romantic but if you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you’d judge me for it.”

— Caroline Kepnes

57. “Everyone wants everything right now but you are able to wait with Such small hands.”

— Caroline Kepnes

58. “Constellations exist because someone saw them, pointed, and someone else said, Yes, I see it too.”

— Caroline Kepnes

59. “Consciousness is the monster and it wins.”

— Caroline Kepnes

60. “The world fell out of love with love at some point.”

— Caroline Kepnes

61. “If you knew what I went through to get into your home, that I messed up my back trying to know you, inside and out, you’d judge me for it.”

— Caroline Kepnes

62. “We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.”

— Caroline Kepnes

63. “I fold my hands under my head and tell the books all about you. They listen, Beck. I know it sounds crazy, but they do.”

— Caroline Kepnes

64. “I gave her as much as I had, but it’s like the difference between a movie and a book: A book lets you choose how much blood you want to see. A book gives you permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs. You interpret.”

— Caroline Kepnes

65. “Nature is an inherently forward beast; footsteps disappear, past hurts fade.”

— Caroline Kepnes

66. “Thank you so much.” “Every time.” “I like that. Every time. Instead of ‘anytime.’ It’s pointed.”

— Caroline Kepnes

67. “When I’m nervous, I get nasty. It’s a problem.”

— Caroline Kepnes

68. “Los Angeles is full of places to hide a body, but when the person inside the body doesn’t love you, it’s not an easy thing, turning that breathing person into a dead one.”

— Caroline Kepnes

69. “It’s June and the city is ripe with meaningless fecal heat. It will be a different kind of hot in LA, the kind that made the Beach Boys all tan and giddy, a heat that doesn’t harass you in the shade.”

— Caroline Kepnes

70. “It’s not romantic and it’s a daylight date but I understand that your attraction to me is so intense that you need to keep a safe distance.”

— Caroline Kepnes

71. “If we were teenagers, I could kiss you. But I’m on a platform behind a counter wearing a name tag and we’re too old to be young.”

— Caroline Kepnes

72. “A poet is different. A poet transforms the world with Such small hands.”

— Caroline Kepnes

73. “It’s a sad and grotesque thing that you and your friends have become so accustomed to lies that the truth has to be prefaced because it’s inherently surprising, a startling departure from the lies that comprise your lives.”

— Caroline Kepnes

74. “Coachella is a festival fashion show where people dress up like hippies and pretend that Passion Pit is as good as the Rolling Stones.”

— Caroline Kepnes

75. “I like that. Every time. Instead of ‘anytime.’ It’s pointed.” “Well, I mean it.”

— Caroline Kepnes

76. “Some people on this earth receive love, get married, and honeymoon in Cabo. Others do not. Some people read alone on the sofa and some people read together, in bed. That’s life.”

— Caroline Kepnes

77. “When I get nasty like that, it’s like I’m standing outside of myself and I know I’m being terrible and irrational but there’s nothing I can do about it.”

— Caroline Kepnes

78. “You’re lucky to get your heart broke. That just means you have a heart.”

— Caroline Kepnes

79. “Kate Hudson’s entire career exists because people who fall in love sometimes tell lies about where they work.”

— Caroline Kepnes

80. “Dear Beck, It’s not your fault you were born on an island. Of course you identify as an island. But, dear girl, you’re not an island. Be populated. Be welcoming to love. Love, Beck.”

— Caroline Kepnes

81. “I know all about mirroring, Beck. One of the best ways to get someone to trust you is to focus on what you have in common.”

— Caroline Kepnes

82. “You gotta ignore people until they get in line.”

— Caroline Kepnes

83. “It’s not the past if it’s not finished.”

— Caroline Kepnes

84. “This is why people like writing. You visit old friends without having to go on Facebook and see what they’re up to and deal with what idiots called FOMO. You make them into what you want them to be, the people they could be if only they were braver, smarter.”

— Caroline Kepnes

85. “We are both on a journey and we are both in love and that’s all anyone can hope for in life.”

— Caroline Kepnes

86. “A book lets you choose how much of the blood you want to see. A book gives you the permission to see the story as you want, as your mind directs.”

— Caroline Kepnes

87. “The world stops and your eyes gloss over. The Benjis of the world don’t understand what you want, someone to make you pancakes. You don’t care about money. You don’t want to be spanked. You want love. Your father had a red ladle and now I have a red ladle and I will make you the pancakes you want so badly, the pancakes you haven’t tasted since he died. Your mouth waters and you submit, softly. “Okay, Joe.”

— Caroline Kepnes

88. “They’re in their own world, where good things happen, a quarter mile and a million light years away.”

— Caroline Kepnes

89. “In the cage, you feel loved, not trapped. Just like me.”

— Caroline Kepnes

90. “She wasted my heart, my time.”

— Caroline Kepnes

91. “They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?”

— Caroline Kepnes

92. “He laughs and hugs me and says that I shouldn’t believe anyone who tells me it’s gonna get better. “Ride the wave,” he says. “Don’t wait for it. Don’t fear it. Just ride it.”

— Caroline Kepnes

93. “T-shirt lifts just enough so that you can see my midsection – you need something to dream about – and.”

— Caroline Kepnes

94. “There’s no good place to break someone’s heart.”

— Caroline Kepnes

95. “She says you can’t pretend you have nothing when you have so much.”

— Caroline Kepnes

96. “Most people die old, full of pain and regret. Or young and full of drugs and self-indulgence – or sheer bad luck.”

— Caroline Kepnes

97. “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” “Frank Lloyd Wright said that.”

— Caroline Kepnes

98. “There’s emptiness in him that can never be filled, emptiness that dresses up well at prep school, where a lack of willpower is called creativity.”

— Caroline Kepnes

99. “It’s all so un-Victorian.”

— Caroline Kepnes

100. “It is possible to know people. They show you who they are. You just have to be looking.”

— Caroline Kepnes