Nina LaCour Quotes

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

— Nina LaCour

“There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.”

— Nina LaCour

“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

“How it's so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she's made me. She got to disappear completely and I feel like I'm about to combust.”

— Nina LaCour

“Sometimes inspiration strikes; other times you have to hunt it down.”

— Nina LaCour

“I'll make a swing so I can reach the places I can't reach yet.”

— Nina LaCour

“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

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.

— Nina LaCour

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

Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all.

— Nina LaCour

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

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.

— Nina LaCour

“There is an indescribable feeling that comes from being desperately in love with a song.”

— Nina LaCour

“Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be.”

— Nina LaCour

I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, "Soon this will be over". But I understand more now. About the way life works.

— Nina LaCour

“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

“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.”

— Nina LaCour

“I'll be better, so I won't want it to hurt anymore.”

— Nina LaCour

“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

“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

“Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide oak - I didn't tell anyone when Ingrid cut herself. Baby oak - the time I told her I was getting sick of hearing about Jayson's arms and his blue shirt. Tall tree with bare branches - the way I would leave when she got depressed and stopped talking. I should have stayed. I should have just sat quietly , so she knew I was with her.”

— Nina LaCour

“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.”

— Nina LaCour

“Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.”

— Nina LaCour

“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

“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.”

— Nina LaCour

“She was never something waiting to be solved. All she is - all she's ever been - is a person trying to live a life.”

— Nina LaCour

“I always knew what I wanted to do, I just didn't know I could do it.”

— Nina LaCour

“Dylan, in her skintight black jeans, safety-pinned shirt, and bulky armbands, with her hair sticking out in every direction and that black freshly smeared around her eyes, doesn't just smile, doesn't just walk toward Maddy and put her arms around her. No. Instead, every muscle in her whole body seems to lose all tension, her step forward resembles a skip, and she lets out a hey that might as well say, I love you, you are so beautiful, no one in the world is as amazing as you are.”

— Nina LaCour

“Here it is, all at once: rightness.
Not the graffiti itself, even though it's undeniably spectacular, but this feeling of making plans and carrying them them through, of meeting people and getting to know them, of being asked to do something and saying Yes, of wanting something, asking for it, making it happen.”

— Nina LaCour

People take one another for granted

— Nina LaCour

YOu just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment of your life, and think, "Soon this will be over".

— Nina LaCour

“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”

— Nina LaCour

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

“I can't think of enough expletives to perfectly capture this moment.”

— Nina LaCour

“How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head.”

— Nina LaCour

“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

“And then she is kissing me, right here on the sidewalk on a foggy summer night. Violet is kissing me, and everything is perfect. The kiss doesn't end. We are not two girls on a polite first date, bestowing a customary good-night peck.
No.
We are kissing like girls who have ached for each other for years who never even spoke but somehow exchanged I love yous anyway.”

— Nina LaCour

“Yearning is a red-haired girl sitting on the hood of her silver sedan, reading about Marilyn Monroe. A cherry orchard at night, houselights in the distance. It's the painstaking neatness of a paint-by-number sunset, a yellowed letter held between graceful fingers, a cautious step into the sun-filled lobby of a famous hotel.
It's the way I feel every time I think about Ava.”

— Nina LaCour

“There's nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.”

— Nina LaCour

“Would you really fight for him?" I nod.
But the nod isn't enough, so I go on.
"In fact, I would tear through rubble with my bare hands to get to him. I would lift cars. I would wrestle down anyone who said we shouldn't be together. I would stare down life and kick it in the ass if I had to. Because if you want to know the truth
if you really want to know the truth
none of that could be nearly as hard as being in love with him and not being able to tell anyone about it. Including him. I have this thing inside me, and it's angry and it's scared and it's uncertain and most of all it's so completely in love with him, and it would do anything to keep him, even if it means things staying the way they are now.”

— Nina LaCour

“It's an ache. A heavy sadness. The kind that is brought on by heartbreak and then perpetuated by everything that reminds you of the way it's broken. The kind that feels impossible to shrug off or tuck away. But there is another feeling, too, surfacing, and soon I discover that it's the kind that makes the heartbreak almost something to savor because it is so simple and true.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

“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.”

— Nina LaCour

But it feels different because wanting someone is not the same as loving her, and now I understand that Morgan does not love me.

— Nina LaCour

“She lets go.
Touch me again, I want to tell her. But I don't.”

— Nina LaCour

“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.”

— Nina LaCour

“All the things we could be doing now if she weren't busy wondering if the world holds better things for her than me.”

— Nina LaCour

We all get so afraid. We need to be brave.

— Nina LaCour