Second Chance Quotes

“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, Second Chance

“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.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Maybe, when you meet the right person, it's like meeting a piece of yourself that you never knew existed because somebody had to open it up for you. Pull it out of you. Point it out to you.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Closure. That's probably the most unrealistic word in the English vocabulary. It's up there with heartbreak, pain, loss, and abandonment, all these things that you're supposed to get over and mend and heal but really, do you ever get over those moments?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Sometimes you have to lose what you have in order to gain what you need.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“You need to fall apart once in a while before you understand how you best fit together.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“The more people I meet, the more I'm realizing how rare it is to find someone who lets you be yourself. Who never tries to hold you back, but watches you ride out the wave of intensity and see where it takes you.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Love is the only drug that's healthy to overdose on.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Love always finds you, no matter how hard you try to avoid it. It knows your hiding places. It's smarter than you'll ever be.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“I think falling in love should come with a warning label: CAUTION—side effects may include sporadic singing in public (specifically Celine Dion covers), emotional intoxication, constant fool grinning, stomach flipping, eye twinkling, heart palpitations, sweaty hands, jittery feet, lack of sleep, giddiness, deep sighs of contentment, sexual fantasizing, uncontrollable bouts of happiness, and the need to help everyone else around you fall in love so they can experience this blissful state.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Next time you take directions from your heart, plan on getting lost.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“It’s amazing to think where adventure can lead when you trust your crazy ideas, when you’re bold enough to look at only what lies ahead of you. I don’t want the normal life. I don’t want to go to college because it’s the next practical step, just to join the pack, just to follow a leader. I don’t want to sit inside a room under fluorescent lights and study and read and memorize other people’s ideas about the world. I want to form my own ideas. I want to experience the world with my own eyes.

I’m not going to follow my old friends to avoid the effort of making new ones. I don’t want to settle for any job just to get a paycheck, just to pay rent, just to need furniture and cable and more bills and be tied down with routine and monotony. I don’t want to own things because they’ll eventually start to own me.

Most importantly, I don’t want to be told who I am or who I should be. I want to find myself—the bits and pieces that are scattered in places and in people waiting to meet me. If I fall down, I’ll learn how to pick myself up again. You need to fall apart once in a while before you understand how you best fit together.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Love is more like an accident than a plan. It's more of a question than an answer.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“I always thought love would be easy and slip into place when the moment is right. 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?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“If life came with an audience, mine would be laughing hysterically right now.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Trying to change someone is easier than trying to accept them It's how we're programmed”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Cameras give one person a thousand eyes. They take us light years away. Pictures introduce us to a million strangers. They let us travel to other planets. It's like teleporting. It's the magic that intrigues me.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“There are three things I look for in a person. And you're the only person I've met in the world that has all of them.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“A single kiss can be one of the craziest things you ever do.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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 seen 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, Second Chance

“That's how you make me feel tonight. You. Crush. Me. Under your magnificent light show.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Because from my personal experience, Dylan, falling in love with you is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. It's fun as hell, a rush of adrenaline, until the inevitable crash comes where you leave and my heart splatters all over the ground.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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' like a religion'; it's like believing in a god. You can't explain it. No one can tell yo yo're wrong. It just is.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“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?”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“Kari`s really beautiful.” “Beauty has its limits,” I say. “Hers ends on the surface.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance

“It`s easy to be far away from people you love when you think everyone’s happy. But when you find out someone needs you and you can’t be there, it makes the distance grow claws and teeth and start to gnaw at your heart.”
― Katie Kacvinsky, Second Chance