Kasie West Quotes

Kasie West

Kasie West is an author of many young adult novels, mostly contemporary romance. (Kasie West Quotes)

“A lot of people don’t get my humor. My mom calls it dry humor. I think that means “not funny,” but it also means I’m the only one who ever knows it’s a joke.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“A wrong was just righted. Take care of my best friend.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“All I had to do was rise up on my tiptoes and our lips met. He tasted like mint gum and all my hopes and dreams. Well, not all of them, but a lot of them.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“And sometimes is all I need. And more than I deserved. So I read into every sign. Because sometimes, yes this time, sometimes brought me you. ”
Kasie West
Sunkissed

“Are we being crazy? Is this impractical?” “Who cares? Now is the time to fail spectaculary. We have our whole lives ahead of us to try again and again.”
Kasie West
Maybe This Time

“Art is subjective, that’s what makes it great,” I said. “We each get to love or hate something on our own terms.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“As if reading my mind, he said, ‘It’s about time you lost it.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“Because an illusion is an illusion. Reality always exists despite the facade.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Because no one frustrates me quite as much as you do.” Totally true. “Soon, the thought of your face will do it, but now, it seems I need your annoying presence as well.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“Because we’re like strangers living in the same house. We don’t even care enough about each other to fight anymore.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Bones should be stronger than they are, considering they’re what holds us up.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“Books bringing people together.’ That would make a good slogan for the library.”
Kasie West
By Your Side

“But I knew it wasn’t that simple. Nobody’s fears were. Mine weren’t.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“But knowing about someone doesn’t equate to knowing them.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“But, he continues, if you need something to hold on to until you feel grounded, I make a pretty good anchor.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Chin up. There are other fish in the sea. It’s a big ocean. Sometimes we need to catch and release a few before we find the keeper.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“Courage isn’t the absence of fear but the ability to move forward despite the fear.”
Kasie West
Listen to Your Heart

“Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“Do you ever feel like you do something or are something for so long that it defines you?”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Don’t pretend to know what I’m thinking based on your experiences”
Kasie West
By Your Side

“Even though I knew this might end in heartbreak, that he might make my life scary and complicated and unpredictable, I knew I couldn’t let him walk away. Because I knew he’d also make my life happy and comforting and full.”
Kasie West
By Your Side

“Feelings can be the most costly thing in the universe.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“Good. But don’t lie down and let your mind replay every unsolvable problem in your life. You need to empty your mind, and relax each muscle group until you feel like you are going to melt into the floor. Then you just let it all go. All the expectations, all the unneeded worry, all the things other people want for you but you don’t want for yourself.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“He starts with the character’s eyes and by the time he moves to her hair, a mess of blonde curls, I realize he’s drawing me. “Superheroes. You can finally have those super powers you want.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“How is selfworth measured today? By the amount of likes a post gets, by how many friends we collect, by how many retweets we accumulate? Do we even know what we really think until we post our thoughts online and let others tell us if they are worthy?”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I believe in making our own luck,” he said. “But a talisman now and again can help motivate us.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“I can do both at the same time,” he assured me. “I’m talented like that.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“I don’t know how to get over it.” “You can only go through it.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“I don’t care when people think I’m an antisocial, controlling bookworm because that’s what I am. It’s when they interpret me wrong that I have a problem.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“I don’t like the words ‘I’m fine’. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English language.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge me.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“I folded the letter and carefully placed it back in its spot. Now I had to wait twenty-four hours for a response. This was so much less gratifying than texting.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“I get too self-conscious. Especially about things that mean a lot to me. I feel like if I hold things close, never share, then I never give anyone the opportunity to judge me.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“I had seen a different side of her, the one where she didn’t feel threatened by me, and I liked that side. That side was vulnerable and happy and kind.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“I hated being vulnerable, putting myself out there. I hated looking stupid, feeling stupid. I didn’t want to do this. But I had to. I would.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“I have to keep her around. She owns me.” He kissed the corner of my mouth. “You own me.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“I hope so because otherwise I’m really far behind.” “I think you know yourself better than you think.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I knew why I cared. Why this mattered so much. Why his opinion was the only thing that mattered. I was more than crushing on him. I loved Braden.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“I know, it’s like I’m a tiny bit interesting or something.”
Kasie West
Listen to Your Heart

“I never get mad when people hear my name wrong because I think to myself, Maybe they have hearing issues, excess earwax or something.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I never wanted anyone to have this much power over my emotions again. It was safer to keep to myself, to keep things on the surface. Things ended better that way.” (Kasie West Quotes)
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I realized love was this.” His put his hand on his chest. “This deep, intense caring about someone’s well-being. About wanting that person to be okay no matter what happens to yourself.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“I think any excuse is a good one to be obsessed.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“I turn my head so that he doesn’t see my smile and secretly curse him for making me feel special.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“I want you to choose me, Addie,” he whispers. “I want this to be real.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“I wanted him to like me because as much as I’d tried, I could no longer deny the fact that I liked him.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I was humiliated for the girl with the social media addiction. The girl addicted to the validation of strangers. She didn’t even know what she thought until someone told her what to think. She didn’t even know who she was.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“I was not one of those girls who needed to fix broken boys.”
Kasie West
By Your Side

“I wonder why some people seem to be born knowing what they want to do with their lives and others – mostly me – have no idea.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“I wondered if life was about facing fears. Sometimes we overcame them and sometimes they overcame us. On the days we won, we had every right to celebrate.”
Kasie West
Listen to Your Heart

“I’ll go home and write my own backstory. It will be easier to remember.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“I’m going to make a man bracelet. Let me see your wrist.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“If a penny can bring luck and a dime can grant a wish, how come my eleven cents hasn’t bought me what I need.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“If I were alone I would throw my arms out and spin in a circle. Instead I walk up the stairs, running my hand along books as I go.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“If you can’t laugh, what’s life worth?”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“Is that your subtle way of saying you missed me last week?” “I’ve missed my hot chocolate. I just think of you as the guy who brings it to me. Sometimes I forget your name and call you hot chocolate guy.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn’t lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn’t lived yet.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“It’s entitled ‘Revenge.’ Subtitled ‘How to pay Duke back for using not only his ability but his exceptionally good looks against two unsuspecting, perfectly innocent girls.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“Jackson was wrong, I had learned that I needed other people. But I had also learned that somethings had to be faced alone.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“Just because you can’t see the future, doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. You don’t have to see everything clearly or know exactly where you’re going to move forward.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“Just promise me something. If this is a Search and you don’t pick me, don’t pick this path, for whatever reason, promise me you won’t Erase me.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Letters were safe. They were words, easy to read if enjoyable and stop reading if hurtful.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“Life has a way of turning us all into realists eventually.”
Kasie West
Maybe This Time

“Life is messy. It’s better when we try to get through it together. ”
Kasie West
Sunkissed

“Lights in the blackness. Waiting for the score. Putting on a face. Flirt a little more.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“Love is about caring for someone even when they have weaknesses.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“Love is just child’s play for the dreamers and the fools. You want me to play the game but won’t teach me the rules. ”
Kasie West
Sunkissed

“Magic cannot be explained. It can only be experienced.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“Marching bands used to be used in wars. The musicians wore certain uniforms so the opposing army could identify who not to shoot or something like that.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“Maybe I should go to the concert. I was a sporting-event type of girl, not a loud-music event one. At least that’s what I had always thought. But here I was standing in this store, in these clothes, hearing the sound of laughter in the back room, and realizing that maybe there was more to me than I realized.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“Mocking someone else to make us seem deep or intelligent only proves the exact opposite.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“My mom always tells me that if I feel like punching someone, first I have to say something nice to them. Out loud. If I still feel like punching them, they probably deserve it.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“Nobody else’s opinion about you is going to matter to you until yours does.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“Not at all. What about you? How does it feel to know that even though you have an advanced mind, the girl you love wants me?”
Kasie West
Split Second

“Not the “be yourself” line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.” (Kasie West Quotes)
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“One of my friends at the Compound has a photographic memory. Everything she ever sees, reads, or hears, she remembers forever in perfect detail.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“One person can’t change the future. Do you know how many people and things are involved in every major event that happens? Sure, you might be able to change some of the minor aspects of a day, but ultimately things that are going to happen, if you go along a certain path, do happen.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Our relationship feels different. Like someone has taken my favorite sweater and thrown it in the dryer and it doesn’t fit right anymore. I want to pull and tug on it until it feels comfortable again.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“People need to hear hard things sometimes to push them to be better.”
Kasie West
Fame, Fate, and the First Kiss

“Possibilities are exciting and endless. Realities are final”
Kasie West
By Your Side

“Pride coursed through my chest. Something that had been stolen by an ability was now returned by one. Without another word, Connor let go and climbed into the truck.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“She wears sparkly words across her butt. You told me not to date anyone who did that.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly floating away. I’m constantly looking for something to grab on to so I don’t lose myself.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Sometimes I hesitate to share important things because… I don’t think people will care about them as much as I do. And then when I do share, the things are out there to be judged, or never thought about again. And I can’t decide which outcome is worse.”
Kasie West
Listen to Your Heart

“Sometimes I wish I were passionate about something real. Something I knew I could succeed in. Right now all my dreams are a little far-fetched.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“Sometimes it’s the little things that bring that special someone back to us in some small way.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“Sometimes perfection reveals the lie, not the truth.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Sometimes regardless of what we want, reality takes over.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“Sometimes we expect more that people are capable of giving at the moment”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“Starving is an overused word that diminishes the importance of those in the world that actually are starving,”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“Stop worrying about someone else’s feelings for once and worry about your grade.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“That was something very satisfying about a smile that had to be earned.”
Kasie West
By Your Side

“That we can only control ourselves. No matter how much we wish we could twist and bend someone’s will to ours, they have to want it too.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“That’s because I’m awkward and weird and it’s not fun at all for me or the poor soul who agrees to go out with me.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“That’s because I’ve been trying to get over him since the minute I met him so I’m one step ahead of myself.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“The only reason you need the mask is because you’re afraid of not being perfect”
Kasie West
Moment of Truth

“Then I circle the pivot point. The point right before the path separates.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“There are bands of this era that are perfectly acceptable to cry to.”
Kasie West
Split Second

“There was nothing that made a girl feel better about a guy humiliating her than a different cute guy asking her out.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“This deep, intense caring about someone’s well-being. About wanting that person to be okay no matter what happens to yourself.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“This is like the calm after the storm. Everything has settled, and even though it left destruction in its wake, you know the worst is over.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“This is me facing failure. This is me putting everything on the line even though I know I might lose. And I’m terrified. But like you said, anything worth having is worth the risk.” (Kasie West Quotes)
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“We can’t let boys define how we feel about ourselves. You have to know who you are before you should let any boy worth anything in.”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I knew what I wanted. I needed to go get it.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“We rarely find a depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. Depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us. Everyone, everything, has a story, Gia. When you learn those stories, you learn experiences that fill you up, that expand your understanding. You add layers to your soul.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“We rarely find the depth by looking inside of ourselves for it. depth is found in what we can learn from the people and things around us”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“We’re good for each other, I think. You bring me down to earth and I make you dream big.”
Kasie West
Love, Life, and the List

“Weird is the new cool.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“Well, if you’re a mess then I’m a natural disaster.” “The cutest natural disaster I’ve ever seen.”
Kasie West
The Fill-In Boyfriend

“What’s tomorrow look like from over there? Because from here it looks a lot like yesterday, and I can’t rewrite history, even though I’ve tried before. ”
Kasie West
Sunkissed

“When I read, I feel emotion all on my own. Emotion no living person is making me feel.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Why are you lying to me? I’m so tired of people lying to me. Do I not deserve the truth? Do I look like someone who can’t handle it?”
Kasie West
Split Second

“Words brought us together though they almost kept us apart. You trusted me with your secrets and then you stole my heart.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“You gotta do your best to be the best, right?”
Kasie West
On the Fence

“You like to assign roles to the people in your life. And when they don’t play their parts right, you have a hard time accepting that.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“You need to empty your mind, and relax each other muscle group until you feel like you are going to melt into the floor. Then you just let it all go. All the expectations, all the unneeded worry, all the things other people want for you but you don’t want for yourself.”
Kasie West
Lucky in Love

“You should look into catching rabbits for a living. You’re not half bad at it.” He smiled. “That would be almost as manly as becoming a cowboy.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“You two are the most in-love not-dating people I’ve met.”
Kasie West
The Distance Between Us

“You’re my favorite way to pass the time. But time stands still when you’re on my mind.”
Kasie West
P.S. I Like You

“Your eyelashes make mine want to commit suicide from shame.”
Kasie West
Pivot Point

“Your mom is not you.” “She may not be me but we are a reflection of each other, right? Good or bad, Micah, our family defines us.”
Kasie West
Maybe This Time