Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.”

— Nina LaCour

52. “I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment. That would be romanticization. What it actually felt like was life.”

— Nina LaCour

53. “I am not a darling. I am a girl ready to explode into nothing.”

— Nina LaCour

54. “It isn’t the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it’s all a part of what I’m working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.”

— Nina LaCour

55. “You get close to people. You get farther from them. You learn how much you love them, and then you say good-bye, believing that you will be together again, someday, when your lives curve back into one another’s.”

— Nina LaCour

56. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

57. “I listened to the same heartbroken song the entire bus ride home, because it was still a summer when sadness was beautiful.”

— Nina LaCour

58. “It was terrifying, the idea that we could fall asleep girls, minty breathed and nightgowned, and wake to find ourselves wolves. “I.”

— Nina LaCour

59. “I am nowhere close to finished but I’m the kind of busy that feels eternal, the kind where you can’t say I’ll be done in a few hours because the truth is you will never, ever, be done.”

— Nina LaCour

60. “It’s a good-bye, so I hug her back, breathing in the tangerine shampoo that I will associate with her forever, remembering how we used to shower together in her tiny blue-tiled bathroom after days spent by the pool, and how in the beginning, when things still felt easy and right, holding her close like this – underwater, in the sunlight in the quietest nighttime hours – was the best feeling in my life.”

— Nina LaCour

61. “In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. They’re talking to one another in easy voices about things of great significance and things that don’t mean much. The distance between us and all of that living feels insurmountable.”

— Nina LaCour

62. “You go through life thinking there’s so much you need... Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother.”

— Nina LaCour

63. “Tragedy,” she says. “Heartbreak.” She stops and then she makes sure that I’m looking at her. “Betrayal.” Her eyes bore into mine... “These are all things that change a person. If we endure them and we aren’t changed, then something is wrong.”

— Nina LaCour

64. “It may be difficult to believe,” he said. “I know it may have come across as... romantic, because of how I act when I get her letters. Because of that dress she sent me. 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.”

— Nina LaCour

65. “Fame by association is the emptiest kind.”

— Nina LaCour

66. “And I think of how time passes so differently for different people.”

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67. “And I understand what this is. It’s the opposite of the collapse of the fantasy. It’s what happens when the illusion pales in comparison to the truth.”

— Nina LaCour

68. “There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.”

— Nina LaCour

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

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70. “I was afraid of my loneliness. And how I’d been tricked. And the way I’d convinced myself of so much: that I wasn’t sad, that I wasn’t alone.”

— Nina LaCour

71. “I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like I’ve been punched in both eyes. I can’t talk about the day that follows that.”

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72. “As much as people want to look on the bright side, skip straight to the future when everything will be okay, the truth is that there is this time, where you sometimes have trouble breathing, and you feel powerless. Like you’re screaming and no one hears you, and the myth of the happy future is nothing you can count on, and the only word that makes sense is escape.”

— Nina LaCour

73. “There will be a night, some night, I am sure of it, when the mystery of all of this won’t be so difficult anymore. None of us will ever understand all of it, but you will not be in the dark.”

— Nina LaCour

74. “We were masters of collusion, Gramps and I. In that, at least, we were together.”

— Nina LaCour

75. “As much as I had wanted a love story out of a movie, I know now that movies can only hope to to capture this kind of love.”

— Nina LaCour

76. “I almost expect to see the shoe box rising and falling with journal’s breath.”

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77. “Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we’re really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?”

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78. “What’s the use in waiting until the right moment if that moment never comes?” I say. “What if the moment escapes you in a split second when your focus was elsewhere?”

— Nina LaCour

79. “Friendship is about more than facts. It’s about knowing what someone is thinking, or knowing enough to know that you don’t. But I guess it’s also about not letting too much time go by without asking them questions, so you don’t end up looking at them one afternoon, the sun so bright you have to squint, realizing that you hardly recognize the person they’ve become.”

— Nina LaCour

80. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

81. “I wonder what would happen if I stopped walking, if I let the crowd fill up the space between us. Would he notice? Would he wade back to find me? Or would he keep going, because forward is his destination and I am not?”

— Nina LaCour

82. “You can let them wreck you and allow the wrecking to feel good.”

— Nina LaCour

83. “I don’t know if I still love her in the way I used to, but I still find her just as beautiful.”

— Nina LaCour

84. “I’m learning that it’s good to think about what scares you. To bring it into the light. Even to hold it in your hands, if you can, and feel how it can’t hurt you anymore. To think of it and say, ‘I am not afraid.”

— Nina LaCour

85. “But that’s the way it goes. I lost nearly everything, and then I built something better.”

— Nina LaCour

86. “There’s nothing stupid about wanting to be loved. Believe me.”

— Nina LaCour

87. “She 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

88. “I face away from her for a long time so that she won’t see my sadness. To be held like that, to be let go.”

— Nina LaCour

89. “That girl she was trying to reach- she must have been running from something. She must have been someone special, for her friend to keep trying so hard. Too bad she was gone now.”

— Nina LaCour

90. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

91. “There are no scenes in life, there are only minutes. And none are skipped over and they all lead to the next.”

— Nina LaCour

92. “I always felt kind of guilty that I didn’t feel as sad as she did, but now, watching Dylan, I think that’s probably a good thing. I mean, you see a million terrible things every day, on the news and in the paper, and in real life. I’m not saying that it’s stupid to feel sad, just that it would be impossible to let everything get to you and still get some sleep at night.”

— Nina LaCour

93. “I was afraid of how we lived without opening doors.”

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94. “I’ve been waiting for this for so long – something new, life after high school.”

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

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96. “From the top of Castro Street, it looks like a river of people. It looks, I realize, like a march – rows and rows of people, gathered to exert their power. Only this time we aren’t marching. We don’t need to show our numbers to show our worth. This time our power comes from staying in this space, from walking the hallowed ground of our history and bringing it to life. I am alone, yes. But I am a part of everything. I feel it – I’ve been living in a world, but what I have is a universe.”

— Nina LaCour

97. “Her hand presses hard and insistant on my back, her breasts press against mine.”

— Nina LaCour

98. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

99. “Her suicide shook me deeply. It changed so much about how I view myself, the work I do with all of you.”

— Nina LaCour

100. “Is it possible to get over a voice like this? Someday, I’d like to be able to hear her speak a sentence on the phone with out it making me want to hang up, get in my car, and drive as many miles as it takes to kiss her.”

— Nina LaCour