Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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154. “But change takes courage.”

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

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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. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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160. “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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161. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

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

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

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

— Nina LaCour

165. “If I could stop dreaming up a deathbed scene where his hospital blankets are crisp over his stomach and his hands are holding mine. Where he says something like, See you on the other side, Sailor. Or, I love you, sweetheart. And a nurse touches my shoulder and tells me it’s over even though I can already see it by the peaceful stillness of him. Take your time, she says, so we just stay there, he and I, until the darkness falls and I am strong enough to leave the room without him.”

— Nina LaCour

166. “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?”

— Nina LaCour

167. “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

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

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

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

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

173. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

174. “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

175. “I don’t know why, but I feel like something happened to her, like there’s pain behind her smile.”

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176. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

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

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

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179. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

180. “If this were a short story, it would mean something.”

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

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182. “William Morris. He said that everything you own should be either useful or beautiful.”

— Nina LaCour

183. “But from now on, it’s all about sunshines and rainbows.”

— Nina LaCour

184. “I’m just afraid that one day something’s going to catch me by surprise. Stale coffee. Squares of American cheese. Hard tomatoes, so unripe they’re white in the center. The most innocent things can call back the most terrible.”

— Nina LaCour

185. “She’d been a flower. Snipped from the root, quick to wilt, temporary. She’d existed to be lovely and to be chosen. No one had expected her to last.”

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186. “I try to determine what the feeling is between us at the moment, and hope that something has changed, that we could be, for a little while, at ease with each other.”

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187. “I guess she needs this – for us to move on – but it feels like another loss.”

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

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

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190. “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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191. “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

192. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

193. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

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

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

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196. “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

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

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

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

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

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