Top 250 Katherine Center Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “Every time you have to be brave, you get to be a little braver next time. That’s what life is for.”

— Katherine Center

202. “Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.”

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203. “The joy of quitting. Who knew?”

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204. “Was this a happy ending? Of course. And also only a beginning. In the way that beginnings and endings are always kind of the same thing.”

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205. “The most important thing to remember is that getting what you want doesn’t make you happy.”

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206. “It really left me thinking about what stories are for.”

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207. “We don’t get to know the whole story all at once. And where we’re headed matters so much less than how we get there.”

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208. “Was he flirting with me or being a pain? Had he already won me over, or did I still have a choice?”

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209. “She was trying to teach me the rules of being a successful woman as she understood them. And it never occurred to her that women might be able to write those rules for themselves.”

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210. “And here, right here, is the trouble with being close to other people. The better they know you, the better they can hurt you.”

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211. “It turned out to be kind of like when an old song comes on the radio and you think, “I love this song” but then as you keep listening you remember you never really loved it, you were just excited for a second because you recognized it.”

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212. “Color outside your own lines. Allow yourself another way of seeing.”

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213. “Sometimes anybody really isn’t better than nobody.”

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214. “Reading love stories isn’t frivolous. It’s profound. It’s not escape, it’s the opposite. Trust me, and trust yourself: love stories are the best kinds of therapy. They aren’t shallow, they’re deep. Start looking and you’ll see it, too. Love stories make us better at love. In all directions. And getting better at love of course, means getting better at life.”

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215. “I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to escape. I’ve spent too much time on the run from hard things. But now I wonder if escape is overrated.”

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216. “You can’t bring this story to life without coming to life yourself.”

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217. “At this point, it was more like a collage than a picture. Lots of little pieces and some glue.”

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218. “Wow. There was something so inspiring about being so underestimated.”

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219. “But it was one thing to live your dreams in theory – and it was absolutely another thing to clumsily, awkwardly, terrifiedly do it for real.”

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220. “It doesn’t hurt to spend your life with people who see what’s great about you – in a way that you maybe never would have on your own. The people we love to teach us who we are.”

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221. “Every real human interaction is made up of a million tiny moving pieces. Not a simple one-note situation: a symphony of cues to read and decipher and evaluate and pay attention.”

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222. “How could you find it there? That’s impossible.” “I’m pretty good at impossible things.”

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223. “It’s not all that often that people who’ve wronged you actually apologize. Usually, in my experience, they go on and on maintaining their innocence. Insisting that they weren’t so bad, or they had their reasons, or you were somehow partly to blame.”

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224. “Light matters just as much as darkness. Play matters as much as work, and kindness matters as much as cruelty, and hope matters as much as despair. More so, even. Because tragedy is a given, but joy is a choice.”

— Katherine Center

225. “How is it possible,” I said, gazing at the sight of him in wonder, “that you were everywhere? All along?” Joe shrugged. “You can’t see when you’re not looking, I guess.”

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226. “The more connection I got, the more I wanted. You know, like when you take a nap, but when you wake up you’re somehow sleepier than you were before? That was me, all the time – with humanity.”

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227. “Isn’t it lucky when we’re drawn to people who can teach us things we need to learn?”

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228. “A rom-com should give you a swoony, hopeful, delicious, rising feeling of anticipation as you look forward to the moment when the two leads, who are clearly mad for each other, finally overcome all their obstacles, both internal and external, and get together.”

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229. “Did you just call me chunks?” I asked. What on earth could that mean? “Choonks,” she corrected. “It means sweetheart in Trinidad.”

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230. “Basically we tend to decide on what the world is and who people are and how things are – and then we look for evidence that supports what we’ve already decided. And we ignore everything that doesn’t fit.” “That.”

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231. “We dated for two years. My family loved her. Polite. Well groomed.” “You make her sound like a poodle.”

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232. “The funny thing about the internet is that it is basically a collective hallucination. If you don’t join in, it doesn’t exist.”

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233. “I wondered if having faith in yourself was just deciding you could do it – whatever it was and then making yourself follow through.”

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234. “It’s called a time horizon- a sense of how much time we have remaining. For teenagers, it’s vast. It’s infinite. But as we get older, it shortens and shortens- and we can’t help but feel it. As it shrinks, it makes everything more precious. We appreciate the days more because there are fewer of them to come. And it’s really true. I felt it so much today. How fast it all goes. How much we have to be thankful for. What a miracle each breath is.”

— Katherine Center

235. “All we can do is put away our anger, and our blame, and our guns” – see what I did there? – “and try to make things better instead of worse. That’s the only answer there is.”

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236. “Maybe the best way to keep her with me was to embrace her spirit. To emulate her courage. To bring warmth and love the world that she always fearlessly had.”

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237. “Whatever story you tell yourself about your life, that’s the one that’ll be true.” I lifted my head to give that idea my full attention. My dad went on, “So if I say, ‘This terrible thing happened, and it ruined my life’ – then that’s true. But if I say, ‘This terrible thing happened, but, as crazy as it sounds, it made me better,’ then that’s what’s true.”

— Katherine Center

238. “And that it’s always better to have what you have than to get what you wanted. Except for this: Every now and then, when you are impossibly lucky, you rise above yourself – and get both.”

— Katherine Center

239. “The thing you’re afraid of is never the thing you should be afraid of.”

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240. “That was me, apparently: scared of cows, and scared of love.”

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241. “It’s nice to have a reason to do something nice.”

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242. “The story of your life is always full of mystery. You can unfold it on a table like a map, and study it, and understand it in new ways.”

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243. “Well, children can’t see their parents clearly until they grow up.”

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244. “Believing in things that aren’t real? Making something out of nothing? Connecting dots that don’t need or want to be connected? That’s what all the best writers do.”

— Katherine Center

245. “And the truest thing I knew about myself was this: I was always happy when I was making things.”

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246. “If you don’t reject the harsh things people say to you, then I guess, at some point, that means you accept them.”

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247. “It’s as if loving somebody – really, bravely, just all-in loving somebody – is a doorway to something divine.”

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248. “There’s nothing like the mutuality of a hug – the way you’re giving comfort but you’re getting it, too.”

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249. “Keep your eyes on the puff at all times,” I said, sounding like a coach. “Be the dollop!”

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250. “I’ve spent so much time wishing that what happened never happened. But it did. And the question I try to focus on is, What now?”

— Katherine Center