Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “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

102. “There’s something about distance, being removed from what’s familiar, that lets things happen.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

104. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

105. “I think I’ll close my eyes, too, try to sleep away the sick feeling, the whisper that I am a waste of her time, her money, her effort.”

— Nina LaCour

106. “Things I need: The Californian sunshine. A more convincing smile.”

— Nina LaCour

107. “In the circle of the human we are weary with striving, and are without rest.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

109. “It’s an ache. A heavy sadness. The kind that is brought on by heartbreak and then perpetuated by everything that reminds you of the way it’s broken. The kind that feels impossible to shrug off or tuck away. But there is another feeling, too, surfacing, and soon I discover that it’s the kind that makes the heartbreak almost something to savor because it is so simple and true.”

— Nina LaCour

110. “Yearning is a red-haired girl sitting on the hood of her silver sedan, reading about Marilyn Monroe.”

— Nina LaCour

111. “That before all of us there was something else. Eventually, something will take our place. I learn that I am a tiny piece of a miraculous world.”

— Nina LaCour

112. “Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide oak- I didn’t tell anyone when Ingrid cut herself. Baby oak- the time I told her I was getting sick of hearing about Jayson’s arms and his blue shirt... Then I look out to where there’s this huge group of trees in the distance, and I count those for all the times I called her some name, or told her she was being stupid- because even though I was always joking, it might have hurt.”

— Nina LaCour

113. “We all get so afraid. We need to be brave.”

— Nina LaCour

114. “One of the first lectures my history professor gave us was about this guy William Morris. He said that everything you own should be either useful or beautiful. It’s a lot to aspire to, but I figured why not try? I saw these in a potter’s studio a couple days afterward and I bought them.”

— Nina LaCour

115. “Everyone is always telling my generation that we aren’t going to know how to engage with people. We’re all going to end up with computer chips implanted in our brains and screens stuck in our eyes like contact lenses. But no one gives us any solutions, so I decided to find my own.”

— Nina LaCour

116. “I’m glad we didn’t know better.”

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117. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.”

— Nina LaCour

118. “And we step off the curb, all of us together, as if to say: Here we come. Through hard days and good ones, through despair and through exhilaration, in love and out of love, for just now or for forever. Here we come. It’s our parade.”

— Nina LaCour

119. “I breathe deep. I look into her eyes. I wish I could take her face in my hands and kiss her, but I know she needs more than that right now. Even though I want to give her everything, I’ve learned enough in the last few days to only promise what I know I can deliver.”

— Nina LaCour

120. “But what I didn’t know yet was that you can tell a girl you want to hang out with her because she said something smart.”

— Nina LaCour

121. “YOu just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment of your life, and think, “Soon this will be over”.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

123. “When you live in LA and work in the movies, you experience the collapse of some of that fantasy. You know that the eyes glow like that because of lights placed at a specific angle, and you see the actresses up close and, yes, they are beautiful, but they are human size and imperfect like the rest of us.”

— Nina LaCour

124. “I know it’s mean of me, but I have this feeling that if I let her touch me, I would shatter into pieces.”

— Nina LaCour

125. “They weren’t cheap and I was almost broke. It was a choice between dinner and flowers and I chose flowers because it was a dark time in my life and my room was hideous and my heart was broken and I needed something beautiful.”

— Nina LaCour

126. “I sit next to Violet and hold her hand. I sit next to Wyatt and dab glitter on his cheekbones. I sit next to Lehna and make dinner plans for after graduation. I sit next to Greer and tell them I loved their poem. I sit next to Mark and say, “Let’s know each other like this for a very long time.”

— Nina LaCour

127. “All the things we could be doing now if she weren’t busy wondering if the world holds better things for her than me.”

— Nina LaCour

128. “There are many ways of being alone.”

— Nina LaCour

129. “We were innocent enough to think that our lives were what we thought they were, that if we pieced all of the facts about ourselves together they’d form an image that made sense – that looked like us when we looked in the mirror, that looked like our living rooms and our kitchens and the people who raised us – instead of revealing all the things we didn’t know.”

— Nina LaCour

130. “Something in me is cracking open, the light coming through is so bright it hurts, and the rest of me is still here, wounded, even though I know it’s all for the best.”

— Nina LaCour

131. “Crushes are supposed to be fun, aren’t they? They definitely aren’t supposed to be so torturous.”

— Nina LaCour

132. “I took the chain between the tips of my fingers, lifted it to the light. Each delicate link sparkled in the sun. It would have been lovely on anyone’s wrist. It would have been precious, with or without me. But it was everything I wanted, because I chose it to be mine.”

— Nina LaCour

133. “But it feels different because wanting someone is not the same as loving her, and now I understand that Morgan does not love me.”

— Nina LaCour

134. “There are no scenes in life, there are only minutes.”

— Nina LaCour

135. “People talk about coming out as though it’s this big one-time event. But really, most people have to come out over and over to basically every new person they meet. I’m only eighteen and it already exhausts me.”

— Nina LaCour

136. “All through my chest and my stomach is this regret over what I’m doing to Dylan, in my hands and my feet is this electricity at the thought of Taylor leaning close to me, and all over my whole body, way, deep inside it, is this hurting over Ingrid. I could scream at the top of my lungs and the sound I would make wouldn’t be half as loud as I’d need it to be.”

— Nina LaCour

137. “When you’re friends with someone for such a long time, it’s easy to feel like she belongs to you, like the version of the person you became friends with is the only real version. If she hated peas when she was a kid then she will always hate peas, and if she starts to eat them and declare them delicious, really she is deluding herself, masking her hatred of them, trying to pretend she’s someone she’s not.”

— Nina LaCour

138. “Nobody’s crazy here. We just see different things.”

— Nina LaCour

139. “It was a summer of trying not to think too deeply.”

— Nina LaCour

140. “We are different people now, yes, but those girls were magic.”

— Nina LaCour

141. “I know that I’m holding myself back. I know that something needs to change, and that I need to be the one to change it. And I know – I know – that if you’re patient with me, what I find on the other end of it, once the towers have burned down, will be you.”

— Nina LaCour

142. “Maybe we always were the people we imagined ourselves to be. Able and brave. Maybe we still are.”

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143. “I never realized a what 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.”

— Nina LaCour

144. “I’m awake and alert, numb and exhausted. I never knew I could be all these things at the same time.”

— Nina LaCour

145. “A leap. Look how precious you were. A spin. How worthy of love you were. A dip. Look at your heart, intact. Reach to the sky. What a miracle it was. Swoop to the grass. How steadily it beat for the people you loved.”

— Nina LaCour

146. “Sometimes when my favorite songs are on I have to stop what I’m doing and lie down on my carpet and just listen. I feel every word they’re singing. Every note. And to think that in twenty years, or ten years, or five, even, I might hear those same songs and just, like, bob my head or something is horrible. Then I’m sure I’ll think that I know more about life, but it isn’t true. I’ll know less.”

— Nina LaCour

147. “But it turns out that even the fiercest denial can’t stop time” -Marin.”

— Nina LaCour

148. “We are all on our way to the same party even if it’s taking place in hundreds of different bars and living rooms. We are going out to celebrate ourselves and one another. To fall in love or to remind ourselves of all the people we’ve loved in the past.”

— Nina LaCour

149. “His camera was always at the ready, as if something beautiful could happen at any moment.”

— Nina LaCour

150. “It’s an ache. A heavy sadness. The kind that is brought on by heartbreak and then perpetuated by everything that reminds you of the way it’s broken.”

— Nina LaCour