Nina LaCour, Hold Still Quotes
He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.
...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.
This was me before I knew about anything hard, when my whole life was packed lunches and art projects and spelling quizzes.
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.
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.
The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.
I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.
I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.
That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.
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.
He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
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.
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.
