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141 " If life came with an audience, mine would be laughing hysterically right now. "
― Katie Kacvinsky , Second Chance (First Comes Love, #2)
142 " 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. "
― Katie Kacvinsky , Middle Ground (Awaken, #2)
143 " You're an abnormality. People get scared when they come across something that doesn't behave the way they expect it to. People like labels and categories and things that they can predict. When people can't explain something, they assume it's because there's something wrong with it. They try to fix it or change it. They mess with it until it's translatable and they bring it down to their level. Trying to change someone is easier than trying to accept them. It's how they were programmed "
144 " 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 , First Comes Love (First Comes Love, #1)
145 " 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. "
146 " 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. "
147 " You let me be who I am. So many people ask me why I need to take pictures all the time. Why I'm staring at something they can't see. It's like I have to apologize for having eyes. But you've never rushed me. I'm at my best around you. You're my nova. You light me up. "
148 " He acted as solid as stone but when it comes to emotions, we're all made out of glass "
149 " The idea that one thing that will define you, forever, is pretty amazing," I said. "It makes you choose it more carefully. "
― Katie Kacvinsky , Awaken (Awaken, #1)
150 " 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 , Still Point (Awaken, #3)
151 " What do you want to see?" he asks. What I always want to see. "A place I'll never forget. "
152 " 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. "
153 " Life's too short to hold back forgiveness. "
154 " 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. "
155 " I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love. "
156 " 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. "
157 " Three weeks feels like three years when you spend all your time missing someone. "
158 " Change happens slowly. And it only happens one person at a time, one day at a time. "
159 " 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. "
160 " My idea of perfect is being too busy laughing at yourself to care what you look like "