Nina LaCour Quotes

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

The sun stopped shining for me is all.

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

my life is just waiting for you to get started.

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.

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

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

Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I hate that word. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: 'Do you think she's straight?' 'Oh no. She's scenic

...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.

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.

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

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

The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.

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.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

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

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

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.

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

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.

This is what I want so don't be sad.

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.

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

People take one another for granted

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.

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.

And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.