Nina LaCour

“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

“Eu a amo, mas não posso voltar no tempo.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

“If things happen for a reason, I was meant to get fucked over.”

— Nina LaCour

“People take one another for granted”

— Nina LaCour

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

— 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…

— Nina LaCour

“Yearning is a red-haired girl sitting on the hood of her silver sedan, reading about Marilyn Monroe.”

— Nina LaCour

“She [Ava] 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

“Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren't they? They definitely aren't supposed to be so torturous.”

— Nina LaCour

“No one talked about the way the summer was supposed to unfold or the places we'd find ourselves in the fall.”

— Nina LaCour

“... 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

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

— Nina LaCour

“Life is paper-thin and fragile. Any sudden change could rip it wide open.”

— Nina LaCour

“...I think that people who make judgements about other people they don't even know are shallow, and people who start rumors are…

— Nina LaCour

“When you're friends with someone for such a long, it's easy to feel like she belongs to you, like the version of…

— Nina LaCour

“If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should…

— 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…

— Nina LaCour

“Searching, always. And yes, we all are, or soon will be, disenchanted, I still want to know it all: the heartbreak, the…

— Nina LaCour

“I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once,…

— Nina LaCour

“This is how it works. You bust your ass. Not everything goes your way, and then, after a while, you get to…

— Nina LaCour

“What's the use in waiting until the right moment if that moment never comes?" I say. "What if the moment escapes you…

— Nina LaCour

“It may be difficult to believe," he said. "I know it may have come across as... romantic, because of how I act…

— Nina LaCour

“In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. They're…

— 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…

— Nina LaCour

“We ate fish-and-chips in a dark pub that belonged in a different country, and we collected beach glass instead of shells, and…

— Nina LaCour

“Sister,” Gramps said, his voice a growl again, as if he hadn’t heard anything we’d been saying. “I’m sure that painful things…

— Nina LaCour

“No one will know if you stay in bed all day. No one will know if you wear the same sweatpants for…

— Nina LaCour

“Ingrid's skin was the smoothest texture, so pale that it was transparent. I could see the blue veins that ran down her…

— Nina LaCour

“My mom says Ingrid's name and I start to hum, not the melody to a song, just one drawn-out note. I know…

— Nina LaCour

“Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would…

— Nina LaCour

“I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it,…

— Nina LaCour

“We love films because they make us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to…

— Nina LaCour

“The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her…

— Nina LaCour

“Here's how I feel: People take one another for granted. Like, I'd just hang out with Ingrid in all these random places--in…

— Nina LaCour

“You go through life thinking there's so much you need. Your favorite jeans and sweater. The jacket with the faux-fur lining to…

— Nina LaCour

“There’s still this thing that happens after you break up with someone. It barely takes any time to work. All you have…

— Nina LaCour

“How it all started was in the first day of English, when Brother John had us analyze some stupid poem, and you…

— Nina LaCour