Top 100 Nina LaCour Quotes
#1. I can't think of enough expletives to perfectly capture this moment.
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#2. I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.
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#3. Dear today,
i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.
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#4. A terrible day," Frank echoes.
"Yes," Edie says, her gaze never leaving Ava's face. "But look. You grew up anyway.
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#5. This is how it works. You bust your ass. Not everything goes your way, and then, after a while, you get to that point. You get to make your own decisions and people look to you for approval on their work.
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#6. Even if I couldn't get into the dark places in her head, I would at least be there waiting on the outside.
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#7. You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.
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#8. How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still.
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#9. That girl she was trying to reach- she must have been running from something. She must have been someone special, for her friend to keep trying so hard. Too bad she was gone now.
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#10. Whatever I decide, I might be making a mistake. But if I'm going to make a mistake I want it to be passionate
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#11. I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are shallow, and I really don't care what shallow people say about me.
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#12. It's incredible," she says, "how much damage everyone does to everybody else.
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#13. You get close to people. You get farther from them. You learn how much you love them, and then you say good-bye, believing that you will be together again, someday, when your lives curve back into one another's.
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#14. Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be.
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#15. It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.
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#16. There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.
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#17. In just a little while we will forget all the things we used to want and adjust to the lives that we're given.
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#18. I'm sorry I left without telling you," she says. "I wasn't ready. I wanted it so much, and I wasn't ready for that.
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#19. This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
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#20. I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
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#21. They say that's what happens when you fall in love. You want to tell people things. You especially want to tell them sad things. Hidden sad things from the past. Something like: I was abandoned at a sweetshop in an unspecified European country.
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#22. There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.
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#23. We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.
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#24. I sort through the letters and pull out what I need for the beginning. They snap easily into place. And even though I thought I would need every letter, I finish the first sentence and realize that it's all I have left to say.
I MISS YOU.
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#25. But it turns out that even the fiercest denial can't stop time.
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#26. That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.
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#27. Her suicide shook me deeply. It changed so much about how I view myself, the work I do with all of you.
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#28. I wonder what would happen if I stopped walking, if I let the crowd fill up the space between us. Would he notice? Would he wade back to find me? Or would he keep going, because forward is his destination and I am not?
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#29. And I think of how time passes so differently for different people.
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#30. I think that sometimes people want something so much that they manifest it. Or at least they try to.
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#31. No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.
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#32. Fame by association is the emptiest kind.
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#33. I just want all my friends to be happy. And sometimes you have to do that one friend at a time.
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#34. Don't you want to kiss me?' she asks.
She smiles just a little, a hopeful, sweet smile, but buried in it is that confidence that slays me.
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#35. She won't ask if I'm okay because she'll already know that for us Are you okay? is an impossible question.
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#36. The ocean is far below us, but the waves crash so loudly, sound close enough to drown us.
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#37. If things happen for a reason, I was meant to get fucked over.
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#38. But it feels different because wanting someone is not the same as loving her, and now I understand that Morgan does not love me.
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#39. I kept wondering then - I'm still wondering now - if there was a time when she realizes that something was going wrong. Inside her, I mean. when she could feel herself slipping away, something new creeping in. If she could have stopped it, or if it just... happened.
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#40. My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her. It's so wrong so completely and painfully wrong, that I walked through my front door tonight smiling.
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#41. Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all.
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#42. We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.
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#44. Is it possible to get over a voice like this? Someday, I'd like to be able to hear her speak a sentence on the phone with out it making me want to hang up, get in my car, and drive as many miles as it takes to kiss her.
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#45. We all want to be feel something, we want to be someone to one another.
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#46. It was terrifying, the idea that we could fall asleep girls, minty breathed and nightgowned, and wake to find ourselves wolves. "I
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#47. I'll make a swing so I can reach the places I can't reach yet.
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#48. And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.
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#49. I don't know if any of this would have happened if we had been at home ... Would we have crammed ourselves into the bathroom of a San Francisco restaurant to play her song? I doubt it. There's something about distance, being removed from what's familiar, that let's things happen.
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#50. She was never something waiting to be solved. All she is - all she's ever been - is a person trying to live a life.
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#51. I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like I've been punched in both eyes.
I can't talk about the day that follows that.
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#52. You're never going to be ready"..."Don't you see that? You have to forget about ready. If you don't, you're always going to run away
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#53. I remember thinking that I looked like the kind of person I would want to know if I just happened to meet myself.
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#54. The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.
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#55. Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.
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#56. I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it.
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#57. There is an indescribable feeling that comes from being desperately in love with a song.
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#58. When you really want to find someone, it isn't that hard. I should have known all along that she wasn't looking. I feel so stupid.
There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved.
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#59. I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see.
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#60. We take a last look out of the window at the night, and I send a silent wish to everyone out there for this kind of warmth.
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#61. Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren't they? They definitely aren't supposed to be so torturous.
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#62. I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life.
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#63. The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.
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#64. We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.
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#65. It's a dark place, not knowing.
It's difficult to surrender to.
But I guess it's where we live most of the time. I guess it's where we all live, so maybe it doesn't have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.
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#66. I don't know if I still love her in the way I used to, but I still find her just as beautiful.
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#67. I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.
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#68. Music is a powerful way for people to express themselves
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#69. I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders ... I fall in love too easily ... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.
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#70. Maybe it doesn't matter, maybe if we all force ourselves to act like we're okay even if we're not, eventually things will get better.
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#71. As much as I had wanted a love story out of a movie, I know now that movies can only hope to to capture this kind of love.
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#72. She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel's place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.
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#73. Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.
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#74. All the things we could be doing now if she weren't busy wondering if the world holds better things for her than me.
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#75. I always knew what I wanted to do, I just didn't know I could do it.
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#76. They weren't cheap and I was almost broke. It was a choice between dinner and flowers and I chose flowers because it was a dark time in my life and my room was hideous and my heart was broken and I needed something beautiful.
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#77. There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.
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#78. What I mean is don't be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.
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#79. When you love someone, you are sure. You don't need time to decide. You don't say stop and start over and over, like you're playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.
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#80. When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn't that bad.
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#81. I'll be better, so I won't want it to hurt anymore.
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#82. I know," I say. "It sucks. Let's go get tacos and sit on the beach.
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#83. He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
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#84. I've been waiting for this for so long
something new, life after high school.
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#85. I can't believe that we could be so impermanent
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#86. I am nowhere close to finished but I'm the kind of busy that feels eternal, the kind where you can't say I'll be done in a few hours because the truth is you will never, ever, be done.
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#87. We all get so afraid. We need to be brave.
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#88. My mom says Ingrid's name and I start to hum, not the melody to a song, just one drawn-out note. I know it makes me seem crazy, I know it won't make anything change, but it's better than crying, it's better than screaming, it's better than listening to what they're telling me.
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#89. We have photographed the trip we were supposed to have. The one where all any of us felt was happy, and the world was only beautiful, and all of the colors were the brightest versions of themselves.
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#90. I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.
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#91. I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.
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#92. You can let them wreck you and allow the wrecking to feel good.
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#93. My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.
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#94. There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.
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#95. She lets go.
Touch me again, I want to tell her. But I don't.
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#96. It isn't the happy ending that Ingrid and I have dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and had you close
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#97. Empathy is wonderful, but you can still overdose on it if you try too much to fast.
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#98. It's about what I know is true. Because I'm looking at this bright red storm of color on a canvas, at all my delicate lines and passionate brushstrokes. I'm looking at something so urgent and true, so far beyond what I thought I was capable of making.
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#99. He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.
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#100. my life is just waiting for you to get started.
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