Middle Ground Quotes

“You can always make time for people. The point is, you have to want to.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Letting go is easy. Anyone can do that. Love is fighting for someone to stay. That's what takes work.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“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, Middle Ground

“Things never happen the way you plan. Take it a second at a time. Stay in the moment. It's the only way to control it. Your thoughts can paralyze you. They make you second-guess and that's when you lose. You mentally beat yourself. Believe you can handle anything. Look at something that's bigger than you and take it all in, the enormousness of it. Drown in it. Then take a step back. Comparmentalize it. Remember, anything's attainable. And take every risk you can, as long as you trust yourself.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Maybe we're always changing."
"Maybe we're always performing."
"Then who are we really?" I wondered. "At the end of the day, with the lights off, all alone, which of those personalities that we take on and off are real?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“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.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Life is three-dimensional, but there are other dimensions we can't see, can only feel, and those are the ones I want to explore.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“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

“He acted as solid as stone but when it comes to emotions, we're all made out of glass”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“So why sit around wasting time dwelling on what could have gone wrong? Shouldn't we be celebrating all the things that went right?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“If you don't consider failing, you won't.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“But almost every story begins with another story's end.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Maybe it takes tragedy to create paradise.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“It made me want more of nothing. Less of things, more of air and freedom and space and quiet and sunshine.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“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, Middle Ground

“There's only one certainty in life: how you come into the world. Where you go from there is up to you.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“it's not so much about moving on, is it?" he said. "It's more about letting go. There lies the challenge.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“relationships can be built only if you invest time in people”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“He walked ahead of me down the hall and I was careful to keep a few steps behind him. I needed the distance. Close human contact was starting to scare me. In the past few weeks, all I'd known around people was pain. When people were face-to-face, tragedy struck. A look felt like a bee sting. It started to seem natural to be separated from people. I craved being alone. No one could hurt me inside my wall screens. They were slowly becoming a comfort, a cushion between me and the harsh world outside. I was stepping out of it less and less.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“He was moving more than his life. He was moving his heart. Putting it closer than down the road from me. He was putting it right in my hands. Right where I'd wanted it since the first day I met him.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“When your time is up, what are your last thoughts going to be?' I asked. 'All of your miserable memories? When you were lonely or scared or heartbroken? The things that almost kill you don't make you stronger. If anything, they make you bitter and closed off and broken.
(...)
I think what you have to live for makes you stronger”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“But I always tell Justin, I'd rather be off my rocker than in one.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Who's that?" I asked him.
"Probably Noah's latest groupie," Clare offered.
"Don't talk about your mom that way," Pat responded.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“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.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“How do you know when you love somebody?"
I felt something inside of me shrink when the words left his mouth. It sounded like a rejection.
"You don't have to ask yourself. You just know it. It's like religion: it's like believing in a god. You can't explain it. No one can tell you you're wrong. It just is."
"Do you think it's temporary?" he asked.
I shook my head. "Not if it's real. Do People stop believing in God because the miss church for a few weeks? You'll always believe”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“When it comes to technology, humans are as easy to train as rats in a cage.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“Why is it that people who talk the most sometimes have the least to say?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“There's a security in people knowing you because sometimes you forget and you need to be reminded of who you are.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground

“I'm scared of only one thing. One. That we don't value people anymore.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Middle Ground