Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Nina LaCour

2. “There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can’t.”

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3. “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.”

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4. “The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren’t ready.”

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5. “How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still.”

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6. “And I want to tell you about everything but I can’t because I couldn’t stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I’m normal. I just really need that from you.”

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7. “Empathy is wonderful, but you can still overdose on it if you try too much to fast.”

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8. “There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We’d be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think ‘it will be okay if it can just be like this forever’ but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “If our past selves got a glimpse of us now, what would they make of us?”

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11. “But sometimes two people have a deep connection. It makes romance seem trivial. It isn’t about anything carnal. It’s about souls. About the deepest part of who you are as a person.”

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12. “I wonder if we will become okay again. I hope for it.”

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13. “When you love someone, you are sure. You don’t need time to decide. You don’t say stop and start over and over, like you’re playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.”

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14. “I could keep going forever, listing all my flaws in order from the most innocuous to the least. I am afraid of spiders... I fall in love too easily... I have fierce spells of self-doubt.”

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15. “We are all humans; we all wake up messy and confused.”

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16. “Sometimes it’s difficult,” he says, “to know the right thing to do.”

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17. “I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”

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18. “We felt so small with the city lights stretching forever below us, and we yelled at the top of our lungs because we were just these small humans but we felt more longing than could ever fit inside us.”

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

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20. “We’d all be leaving one another, going to other places in the fall; and now that the season was changing, rushing towards graduation, everything we did felt like a long good-bye or a premature reunion. We were nostalgic for a time that wasn’t yet over.”

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21. “I know that I am always alone, even when surrounded by people, so I let the emptiness in.”

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22. “My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”

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23. “The morning fog spreads from tree to tree like a blanket of regret.”

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24. “It’s a dark place, not knowing. It’s difficult to surrender to. But I guess it’s where we live most of the time. I guess it’s where we all live, so maybe it doesn’t have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.”

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

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26. “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.”

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27. “You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”

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

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29. “She peels an orange, separates it in perfect halves, and gives one of them to me. If I could wear it like a friendship bracelet, I would. Instead I swallow it section by section and tell myself it means even more this way. To chew and to swallow in silence here with her. To taste the same thing in the same moment.”

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30. “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.”

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31. “I have only just learned how to be here. Life is paper-thin and fragile. Any sudden change could rip it wide-open. The.”

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32. “What I mean is don’t be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.”

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33. “I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn’t a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”

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

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35. “I wonder if there’s a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn’t yours anymore.”

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36. “This is what I want so don’t be sad.”

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37. “I just want all my friends to be happy. And sometimes you have to do that one friend at a time.”

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38. “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.”

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39. “I wish her more happiness than can fit in a person. I wish her the kind of happiness that spills over.”

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40. “I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”

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41. “No one will know if you stay in bed all day. No one will know if you wear the same sweatpants for the entire month, if you eat every meal in front of television shows and use T-shirts as napkins. Go ahead and listen to that same song on repeat until its sound turns to nothing and you sleep the winter away. I.”

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42. “And I think of how time passes so differently for different people. Mabel and Jacob, their months in Los Angeles, months full of doing and seeing and going. Road trips, the ocean. So much living crammed into every day. And then me in my room. Watering my plant. Making ramen. Cleaning my yellow bowls night after night after night. “It’s.”

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43. “She leans over our table and turns the sign in the window so that it says CLOSED on the outside. But on our side, perfectly positioned between Mabel’s place and mine, it says OPEN. If this were a short story, it would mean something.”

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

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45. “I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”

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46. “It sucks to lose your best friend, even if only to distance. Even when it isn’t really losing her at all.”

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47. “I used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over. Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers.”

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48. “I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go on in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, “Soon this will be over”. But I understand more now. About the way life works.”

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49. “There’s something fairy-tale-like about it, which is perfect, because fairy tales are all about innocence and ill will and the inevitability of terrible things. They’re all about the moment when a girl is no longer who she once was.”

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50. “She looks away and I wonderif it’s because I’m telling her things she can’t relate to. Maybe she thinks I’m being dramatic. Maybe I am. But I know that there’s a difference between how I used to understand things and how I do now. I used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over. Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers.”

— Nina LaCour