Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “I became aware, then, of the way I moved through the world. No unusual scars or crooked bones. Nothing about the way I looked at first glance that gave me away. I wondered who had done that to him. Who had left it untreated.”

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152. “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 repeat the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”

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153. “The whole world was out there, but I was in my mother’s arms, and I didn’t know it yet.”

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154. “My favorite thing about my home is sharing it with the people I love.”

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155. “But change takes courage.”

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156. “We were beach creatures. We had treasures in our pockets and each other on our skin.”

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157. “Here was the taste of it – a little bitter, a little sweet, some citrus brightness, maybe honey. And here was meaning. A home, hers alone.”

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158. “Remembering the departed is the only way to heal.”

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159. “There are many ways of being alone. That’s something I know to be true.”

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160. “Cried over fiction instead of the truth.”

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161. “Hiding and denying and being afraid is no way to treat love. Love demands bravery. No matter the occasion, love expects us to rise.”

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162. “The most innocent things can call back the most terrible.”

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163. “She sounds so tired. Tired of me and the way I’m not talking.”

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164. “I lost nearly everything, and then I built something better.”

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165. “Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at all.”

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166. “There was so much going on under the top layer. It was quiet, maybe, but it wasn’t simple.”

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167. “I hope you don’t get in trouble, I said, but how could trouble find us? We were miraculous.”

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168. “There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity. Those days and nights in the motel room I weighed each of them against the other. I tried to make sense of what had happened, but each time I came up short. Each time I thought I may have understood, some line of logic snapped and I was thrust back into not knowing. It’s a dark place, not knowing.”

— Nina LaCour

169. “She steps toward me and hugs me tight. I close my eyes. There will come a time soon – any second – when she’ll pull away and this will be over. In my mind, we keep ending, ending. I try to stay here, now, for as long as we can.”

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170. “It was subtle and sweet and just the faintest bit bitter.”

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171. “Descubro que sou uma pequena parte de um mundo milagroso.”

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172. “I guess when you spend a life riding the waves – knowing that the ocean is heartless and millions of times stronger than you are, but still trusting that you’re skilled enough or brave enough or charmed enough to survive it – you become indebted to the people who don’t make it.”

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173. “I’m trying to figure myself out. I keep failing.”

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174. “But it was everything I wanted, because I chose it to be mine.”

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175. “And in our house, we enjoyed our togetherness but we enjoyed our apartness, too.”

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176. “But wherever in the world we live, something’s gonna get us in the end. Something gets us every time.”

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177. “There were always millions of things to talk about, each topic pressing in so that our conversations rarely began and ended but rather began and were interrupted and continued, strands of thoughts that got pushed aside and picked up later. If our past selves got a glimpse of us now, what would they make of us?”

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178. “So this was how it felt- to be dealt a blow, to pause, to keep going in spite of it. Not to start over but to continue.”

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179. “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.”

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180. “So, I tell him everything about her, which feels like telling him about myself, because when you think about something so intensely for so long, it kind of has a way of taking over everything else.”

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181. “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.”

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182. “We were so innocent and we didn’t even know it. There’s no way of getting it back. The confidence. The easy laughter. The sensation of having left home only for a little while. Of having a home to return to.”

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183. “She hadn’t cried in ten years. Now: a thunderstorm.”

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184. “But even if I had already been kissed by dozens of mouths, I would have known this was different.”

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185. “Close your eyes,” I say again. She closes them. I look at her. I wish her everything good. A friendly cab driver and short lines through security. A flight with no turbulence and an empty seat next to her. A beautiful Christmas. I wish her more happiness than can fit in a person. I wish her the kind of happiness that spills over. I place the bell into her open palms.”

— Nina LaCour

186. “To think that a girl who is practically a stranger could be the next person I love.”

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187. “Alice moved through the world noticing beautiful things.”

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188. “I feel like I’ve done something right in taking her here.”

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189. “There was an intimacy to the moment, not a loneliness.”

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190. “What happened had broken us even if it wasn’t about us at all.”

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191. “She’ll be the same as she’s always been – fearless and funny and whole. She’ll still be herself and I’ll be learning who I am now.”

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192. “It’s stunning,” she said. “It’s like... the best posisble thing art can do. It’s about you, but I see myself in it. I imagine everyone here does.”

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193. “You raised your hand and said something so smart about it that suddenly the poem didn’t seem stupid anymore. And I knew that you were the kind of person I wanted to know.”

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194. “Even though there are no true beginnings in life – there’s always something that came before – there are definitely moments that feel like a beginning, and it’s always good to stop and take a second to enjoy them.”

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195. “I know what it’s like to not want to understand.”

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196. “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.”

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197. “The common man pays for the internet,” he went on. “He pays for cable, for Christ’s sake! Because he needs more and more and more! Like anyone could watch one hundred channels. What good is a life if you live it like that? Glued to a lightbox showing you pictures. Telling you when to laugh and what to fear. The common man lives this way because he has lost the intuition of our ancestors. All you need in order to live is this.” He took two fingers and pressed them to my mother’s wrist.”

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198. “She never spent money this way, always thought she’d wait until she had a real apartment, a reason to have nice things, but it struck her, standing in the store: Maybe this was it. Reason enough. Maybe she was in the middle of it already and just hadn’t realized.”

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199. “Gramps set up that tree every year. He pulled out the decorations his dead wife and dead daughter bought and pretended to be a man who had lost too much and survived it. He pretended, for me, that his mind and his heart were not dark and convoluted places. He pretended that he lived in a house of me, his granddaughter, for whom he baked and often drove to school and taught important lessons about how to treat stains and save money, when really he lived in a secret room with the dead.”

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200. “I understood how she’d feel stuck. What she had was so beautiful. How could she add something without taking something away?”

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