We Are Okay Nina Lacour Quotes

#1. 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.

Nina LaCour

#2. my life is just waiting for you to get started.

Nina LaCour

#3. We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.

Nina LaCour

#4. 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.

Nina LaCour

#5. 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.

Nina LaCour

#6. There are no scenes in life, there are only minutes.

Nina LaCour

#7. 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.

Nina LaCour

#8. I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

Nina LaCour

#9. This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.

Nina LaCour

#10. 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.

Nina LaCour

#11. In just a little while we will forget all the things we used to want and adjust to the lives that we're given.

Nina LaCour

#12. 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.

Nina LaCour

#13. 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

#14. Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be.

Nina LaCour

#15. Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down.

Nina LaCour

#16. I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.

Nina LaCour

#17. It's incredible," she says, "how much damage everyone does to everybody else.

Nina LaCour

#18. 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.

Nina LaCour

#19. Whatever I decide, I might be making a mistake. But if I'm going to make a mistake I want it to be passionate

Nina LaCour

#20. People take one another for granted

Nina LaCour

#21. 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.

Nina LaCour

#22. 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.

Nina LaCour

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

Nina LaCour

#24. You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

Nina LaCour

#25. Even if I couldn't get into the dark places in her head, I would at least be there waiting on the outside.

Nina LaCour

#26. 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.

Nina LaCour

#27. A terrible day," Frank echoes.
"Yes," Edie says, her gaze never leaving Ava's face. "But look. You grew up anyway.

Nina LaCour

#28. 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.

Nina LaCour

#29. 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

Nina LaCour

#30. I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.

Nina LaCour