Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “I know what it’s like to not want to understand.”

— Nina LaCour

202. “The sun porch where they’d spent their evenings: wicker furniture, fireflies hurling themselves at the windows, sliver of moon, and John Denver on the radio.”

— Nina LaCour

203. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

204. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

205. “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

206. “Before the water reaches a boil, he will be here. I dropped the pasta in and set the timer. Before the ten minutes are up. I melted some butter. I wasn’t hungry, but I would eat it anyway, and by the time I was done, he would walk through the door and call out my name. The.”

— Nina LaCour

207. “It’s possible that some of the rooms were occupied by regular people, down on their luck, but my wing was full of the broken, and I was at home among them.”

— Nina LaCour

208. “It was quiet, maybe, but it wasn’t simple.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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211. “I was afraid of the man who I’d loved, and how he had been a stranger. I was afraid of how I hated him. How I wanted him back.”

— Nina LaCour

212. “We might have been all that was left, but we were still a part of something bigger.”

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213. “I feel alive with the truth.”

— Nina LaCour

214. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

215. “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

216. “And yet it frightened her when it was over. No emptiness this time. It frightened her, how open her heart was.”

— Nina LaCour

217. “It was a summer of trying not to think too deeply. A summer of pretending that the end wasn’t coming.”

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

— Nina LaCour

219. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

220. “Because if we have any sense of self-preservation, we do the best with what we’re given.”

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221. “It was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined.”

— Nina LaCour

222. “You are still you.”

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223. “Sister. I’m sure that painful things have happened to you. Ever marrying Jesus can’t entirely shield you from the realities of life” -Gramps.”

— Nina LaCour

224. “These are all things that change a person. If we endure them and we aren’t changed, then something is wrong.”

— Nina LaCour

225. “I want to be part of the world outside.”

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226. “I’m trying to stay here with her in her happiness.”

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227. “I’m thinking about how Ingrid always made huge elaborate plans for everything. One of them involved getting rich somehow and buying the theater and fixing it up and reopening it to show indie films. Instead of sofa, we’d sell tea at the concession stand, and we might even have some photographs or books for sale. It would be more than a theater. It would be a place to escape to when people felt stifled by the chain stores and lonely in their massive houses.”

— Nina LaCour

228. “It was a summer of trying not to think too deeply. A summer of pretending that the end wasn’t coming. A summer when I got lost in time, when I rarely knew what day it was, rarely cared about the hour. A summer so bright and warm it made me believe the heat would linger, that there would always be more days, that blood on handkerchiefs was an exercise in stain removal and not a sign of oblivion.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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231. “Things don’t seem to get to her. She’s kind of... straightforward, I guess. But in the best way. In a way that’s really smart and kind.”

— Nina LaCour

232. “San Francisco always felt like an island to me, surrounded by the mythical East Bay with its restaurants and parks and North Bay with its wealth and its redwoods. South of the city was where our dead were buried – but not my mother, whose ashes returned to the ocean that killed her, which was also the ocean she loved. South of that were little beach towns, and then Silicon Valley and Stanford. But the people, everyone I knew, everyone I’d ever known, all lived in the city.”

— Nina LaCour

233. “Knowing that they’ll grow older as time passes, they’ll become old the way Gramps was, with gray hair and a tremble in his step, so much love still in their hearts – this astonishes me. I am capsized.”

— Nina LaCour

234. “There was only so much grieving allowed when it was over someone who was never really hers.”

— Nina LaCour

235. “The moral in case you haven’t come to it yourself, is that sometimes it’s enough just to put something out into the world.”

— Nina LaCour

236. “There is me and there is you and the snow has finished falling. Let’s just sit here.”

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237. “The silence fell between us again, but it wasn’t uncomfortable, just unfinished.”

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238. “We all looked so beautiful.”

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

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240. “I knew you were the kind of person I wanted to know. 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. So I looked for an excuse to talk to you, and I found one.”

— Nina LaCour

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

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

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243. “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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244. “I feel like the night might last forever and I would be okay with that.”

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245. “And Emilie opened the door.”

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246. “The end of the world never sounded so good.”

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247. “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.”

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248. “I’ll go wherever you go.”

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249. “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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250. “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.”

— Nina LaCour