Top 70 Katie Kacvinsky Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “It’s amazing how far you’re willing to go when someone believes in you.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

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2. “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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3. “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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4. “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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5. “Why is it that people who talk the most sometimes have the least to say?”

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6. “All you need is one safe anchor to keep you grounded when the rest of your life spins out of control.”

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “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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11. “I was starting to think, maybe you need to feel your way more through life – just turn off the lights and follow your senses, even if you stumble once in a while. Maybe that’s what falling in love is like. Just feeling your way through the darkness until you find something solid to hold on to.”

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12. “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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13. “What do you say when you’re not enough to make someone stay?”

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14. “Come on, life passes you by when you stand around talking about it.”

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15. “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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16. “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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17. “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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18. “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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19. “If you only focus on the things you leave behind, you’ll never go anywhere.”

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20. “No amount of power is worth having when it means hurting the people you love.”

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21. “What do you say when you’re not enough to make someone stay? 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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22. “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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23. “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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24. “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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25. “Some people steal your oxygen and leave you winded. Some people cut it off completely and you’re left suffocated. But other people, the rare ones, pump oxygen into you, just like a breeze fills a wind puppet and gives it the energy to twist and sway.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “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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28. “When it comes to technology, humans are as easy to train as rats in a cage.”

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29. “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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30. “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?”

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31. “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.”

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32. “What is the girl version of a tool? An accessory? Yes! That’s what she is. A safe, simple accessory.”

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33. “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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34. “Anyone can see what’s right in front of them, but it’s subtle beauty, the kind that takes time to discover, that you have to uncover and dust off, that catches my eye. I find things with cracks and flaws and textures so much more interesting than something polished and perfect and pristine. It’s the same way with people.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “I love you and fried eggs and you more.”

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37. “I studied Jax, becoming more intrigued by him every minute we spent together. 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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38. “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.”

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39. “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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40. “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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41. “I want people to have permission to know me, not unlimited constant access to me.”

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42. “I have more online contacts than I can count. I make about one hundred connections a day. I have access to millions of people. I use to think that I had friends in these numbers. But virtual friends are like stars stretched out in the sky. They’re out there, they exist, and I can imagine what they’re like, but we’ll never meet. We all just co-exist in this vast universe with a length of space between us.”

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43. “You weren’t supposed to think. Just feel. You need to drop some of your senses in order to heighten others.”

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44. “When everything comes easily to you, it never challenges you to change.”

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45. “First I thought she was crazy. Now I’m crazy about her.”

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46. “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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47. “Hope works like that. It hinds and blends in, only to pop out when you least expect it. It’s always a surprise, something you step on, trip over, or stumble on by accident. It hides in the divots of our lives. in the loneliest valleys. It’s like a child, always playing hide and seek to keep our lives unpredictable. Just when we’re about to give up, hope turns on, like light, to guide out way.”

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48. “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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49. “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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50. “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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