“If things happen for a reason, I was meant to get fucked over.” — Nina LaCour Fucked Copy Share Image
“I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.” — Nina LaCour Hold-still Copy Share Image
“Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.” — Nina LaCour Breeze Copy Share Image
“We were beach creatures. We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.” — Nina LaCour Animals Copy Share Image
“It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good… — Nina LaCour Good Copy Share Image
“Life is paper-thin and fragile. Any sudden change could rip it wide open.” — Nina LaCour Change Copy Share Image
“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.” — Nina LaCour Best friend Copy Share Image
“... 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 Caitlin Copy Share Image
“No one talked about the way the summer was supposed to unfold or the places we'd find ourselves in the fall.” — Nina LaCour Flower Copy Share Image
“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 Heart Copy Share Image
“How special it was, that first sip, and each sip that came after. How it had settled and warmed her, made her… — Nina LaCour Bartending Copy Share Image
“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 Moment Copy Share Image
“This is how it works. You bust your ass. Not everything goes your way, and then, after a while, you get to… — Nina LaCour Approval Copy Share Image
“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 Best friend Copy Share Image
“I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once,… — Nina LaCour Hold-still Copy Share Image
“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 Friend Copy Share Image
I want to tell you about everything but I can't because I couldn't stand for you to have that look on your… — Nina LaCour Regret Copy Share Image
“Tragedy," she says. "Heartbreak." She stops and then she makes sure that I'm looking at her. "Betrayal." Her eyes bore into mine...… — Nina LaCour Betrayal Copy Share Image
“No one will know if you stay in bed all day. No one will know if you wear the same sweatpants for… — Nina LaCour Stay Copy Share Image
“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 Remember Copy Share Image
“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 Dressing room Copy Share Image
“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 Dylan Copy Share Image
“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 Life Copy Share Image
“It may be difficult to believe," he said. "I know it may have come across as... romantic, because of how I act… — Nina LaCour Affection Copy Share Image
“There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that… — Nina LaCour Heartbreak Copy Share Image
“I don't know if any of this would have happened if we had been at home... Would we have crammed ourselves into… — Nina LaCour Happen Copy Share Image
“We love films because they make us feel something. They speak to our desires, which are never small. They allow us to… — Nina LaCour Cinema Copy Share Image
“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 High school Copy Share Image
“Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would… — Nina LaCour Depression Copy Share Image
“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 Books Copy Share Image
“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 Big deal Copy Share Image
“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 Cutting Copy Share Image
“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 Break Copy Share Image
“I need to leave something behind. Something that will stay. This room should be a historical landmark, the site of the beginning… — Nina LaCour History Copy Share Image