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

— Katie Kacvinsky

But how can you be there for someone who doesn't need you? It's like trying to scale a wall without anyone on the top throwing you a rope. You just keep sliding down, and eventually your muscles give out, and your energy and your will and your heart.

— Katie Kacvinsky

But I'm learning its human nature to want the things you can't have. What changes is how you go about pursuing the things you want. When you're a little kid, and you're told no, you scream and throw a temper tantrum. When you're a teenager and your parents tell you no, you're old enough to internalize your temper tantrum. But you're smarter, and you're sneakier this time around. So you nod and act like you care when they say no, when they tell you who you can be friends with, when they say the know what's best. But then you go behind their backs to do it anyway. Because at some point, you need to start calling the shots. At some point, you need to start believing you know what's best. Or, I thought with a smile, you just stop asking for their permission in the first place.

— Katie Kacvinsky

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.

— Katie Kacvinsky

By the way, the other reason I agreed to help you is that I love your eyes. You have the most beautiful eyes. It's my weakness.

— Katie Kacvinsky

...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.

— Katie Kacvinsky

Don't worry about hurting me, if that's what you're afraid of. I want to get hurt. At least I'll feel something for a change.

— Katie Kacvinsky

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.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I’d rather fail miserably pursuing my dreams than succeed at something I have to settle for

— Katie Kacvinsky

If you have confidence, if you believe in yourself, you can go anywhere.

— Katie Kacvinsky