If you never leave where you come from, I don't think you'll ever figure out who you are, because how much is forced on you? How much of your personality is imposed instead of created? That's why I left. I think people need to leave in order to find their potential.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I have more online contacts than I can count. I make about one hundred connections a day. Furthermore, I have access to millions of people. Furthermore, I used 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.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I'm in love with him. Completely. Absolutely. Tragically.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I realized how hard it that must have been, how much hurt when you know the only way to help someone is to give him distance. So I let him go.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I rolled my eyes. "He's talking to himself. My vote is he's crazy." He thought about this. "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.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I think falling in love should come with a warning label: CAUTION—side effects may include breaking up, accompanied by heartache, severe mood swings, withdrawal from people and life itself, wasted hours obsessing over bitter reflections, a need to destroy something (preferably something expensive that shatters), uncontrollable tear ducts, stress, a loss of appetite (Cheetos and Dr. Pepper exempt), a bleak and narrow outlook on the future, and an overall hatred of everyone and everything (especially all the happy couples you see strolling hand-in-hand, placed on your path only to exacerbate your isolation and misery). All above reactions will be intensified with the consumption of one or more alcoholic beverages.

— Katie Kacvinsky

I think music is seasonal. In the summer my taste changes.

— Katie Kacvinsky

It's good for you to write down your thoughts. It'therapeutic because it forces you to slow down and think about life.

— Katie Kacvinsky

It's ironic.here is life passing, like clouds drifting over the sky, yet they don't see what's in front of them. They believe there is something more substantial going on in that little screen in their hands.

— Katie Kacvinsky

It's like looking through a microscope your whole life," he (Justin) said. "You miss the whole picture. Sometimes you need to get lost in order to discover anything.

— Katie Kacvinsky