Nina LaCour Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nina LaCour
Nina LaCour Famous Quotes & Sayings
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I remember thinking that I looked like the kind of person I would want to know if I just happened to meet myself.
I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
We were miraculous.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.
We were beach creatures.
We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.
It was terrifying, the idea that we could fall asleep girls, minty breathed and nightgowned, and wake to find ourselves wolves. "I
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.
It sucks to lose your best friend, even if only to distance. Even when it isn't really losing her at all.
No one talked about the way the summer was supposed to unfold or the places we'd find ourselves in the fall.
Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all.
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.
She won't ask if I'm okay because she'll already know that for us Are you okay? is an impossible question.
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?
A terrible day," Frank echoes.
"Yes," Edie says, her gaze never leaving Ava's face. "But look. You grew up anyway.
"Yes," Edie says, her gaze never leaving Ava's face. "But look. You grew up anyway.
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.
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.
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.
Even if I couldn't get into the dark places in her head, I would at least be there waiting on the outside.
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.
She smiles just a little, a hopeful, sweet smile, but buried in it is that confidence that slays me.
But it feels different because wanting someone is not the same as loving her, and now I understand that Morgan does not love me.
I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life.
That would be romanticization.
What it actually felt like was life.
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.
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.
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.
Her suicide shook me deeply. It changed so much about how I view myself, the work I do with all of you.
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.
That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.
I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
I think that sometimes people want something so much that they manifest it. Or at least they try to.
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
She was never something waiting to be solved. All she is - all she's ever been - is a person trying to live a life.
All the things we could be doing now if she weren't busy wondering if the world holds better things for her than me.
The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.
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.
Whatever I decide, I might be making a mistake. But if I'm going to make a mistake I want it to be passionate
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.
I want to tell you all the sad things, and then you will know me better than other people know me and that means we are reserved for one another.