Hold Still Nina Lacour Quotes

#1. How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still.

Nina LaCour

#2. People take one another for granted

Nina LaCour

#3. 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.

Nina LaCour

#4. The rhythm of the footsteps, the sound of whatever is coming down the ladder is driving both me and my mom steadily toward peeing our pants.

Kendare Blake

#5. Divine purpose, divine fulfilment.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

Nina LaCour

#7. When you are full of pride on the inside, it makes you stiff, stubborn, and creates strife with others.

John C. Maxwell

#8. She won't ask if I'm okay because she'll already know that for us Are you okay? is an impossible question.

Nina LaCour

#9. 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.

Nina LaCour

#10. I model my life after my Lord and Master Jesus Christ and his life. He has called me into God's family and I am a representative for him so I just try to be obedient to what He asks me to do.

Ben Zobrist

#11. I'll make a swing so I can reach the places I can't reach yet.

Nina LaCour

#12. 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.

Nina LaCour

#13. Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody - about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,400 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,400 per person.

T.R. Reid

#14. 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.

Nina LaCour

#15. Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.

Nina LaCour

#16. I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

Nina LaCour

#17. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. The world does not have an Islam problem; the world has a dignity problem.

Rand Paul

#19. 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.

Nina LaCour

#20. Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#21. 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.

Nina LaCour