Top 100 Nina Lacour Quotes
#1. 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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#2. 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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#3. And we step off the curb, all of us together, as if to say: Here we come. Through hard days and good ones, through despair and through exhilaration, in love and out of love, for just now or for forever. Here we come. It's our parade.
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#4. There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.
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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. There is an indescribable feeling that comes from being desperately in love with a song.
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#8. There's something fairy-tale-like about it, which is perfect, because fairy tales are all about innocence and ill will and the inevitability of terrible things. They're all about the moment when a girl is no longer who she once was
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#9. I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it.
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#10. Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren't they? They definitely aren't supposed to be so torturous.
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#15. The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.
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#16. 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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#17. 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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#18. And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.
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#19. I'll make a swing so I can reach the places I can't reach yet.
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#20. 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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#21. We all want to be feel something, we want to be someone to one another.
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#22. 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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#24. What's the use in waiting until the right moment if that moment never comes?" I say. "What if the moment escapes you in a split second when your focus was elsewhere?
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#25. I don't want to hurt you or anybody s just please forget about e. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.I never laughed as hard as I laughed with you but now not even the laughing feels good.
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#26. 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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#27. There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.
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#28. 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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#29. If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.
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#30. 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.
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#31. What I'm trying to say is that I just want to know you. You don't have to be at your best. We can't all be at our best all the time. But, I just want to know you.
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#32. I always knew what I wanted to do, I just didn't know I could do it.
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#33. 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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#34. Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.
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#35. 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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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we're really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?
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#39. We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.
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#40. Music is a powerful way for people to express themselves
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#41. It sucks to lose your best friend, even if only to distance. Even when it isn't really losing her at all.
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#42. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.
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#43. 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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#44. 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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#45. 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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#46. Searching, always. And yes, we all are, or soon will be, disenchanted, I still want to know it all: the heartbreak, the fear, the friendship, the anger, the love. All of it.
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#47. 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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#48. The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.
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#49. 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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#50. I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. 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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#56. 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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#57. 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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#58. Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be.
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#59. Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down.
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#60. 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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#61. It's incredible," she says, "how much damage everyone does to everybody else.
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#62. 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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#63. 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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#64. I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.
But I was wrong.
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#65. It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
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#66. 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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#67. How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still.
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#68. You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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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#72. 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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#73. Blue and pink made mud, made dirt, made rock
I am mud, I am dirt, I am rock
I am nature, a force of nature
I am the color that remains
when everything else is washed away
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#74. I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.
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#75. I can't think of enough expletives to perfectly capture this moment.
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#76. I think that sometimes people want something so much that they manifest it. Or at least they try to.
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#77. 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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#78. And I want to tell you about everything but I can't because I couldn't stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I'm normal. I just really need that from you.
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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. 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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#82. If things happen for a reason, I was meant to get fucked over.
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#83. The ocean is far below us, but the waves crash so loudly, sound close enough to drown us.
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#84. 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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#85. 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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#86. 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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#87. Fame by association is the emptiest kind.
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#88. 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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#89. I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
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#90. And I think of how time passes so differently for different people.
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#91. 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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#92. 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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#93. When you're friends with someone for such a long, it's easy to feel like she belongs to you, like the version of the person you became friends with is the only version.
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#94. That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.
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#95. But it turns out that even the fiercest denial can't stop time.
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#96. 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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#97. We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. There are no scenes in life, there are only minutes.
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