Top 250 Nina LaCour Quotes (2026 Update)
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201. “There was an intimacy to the moment, not a loneliness.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

204. “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.”

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

— Nina LaCour

206. “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

207. “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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208. “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

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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

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212. “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

213. “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.”

— Nina LaCour

214. “You are still you.”

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

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216. “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

217. “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

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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220. “We all looked so beautiful.”

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221. “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

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

— Nina LaCour

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

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224. “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

225. “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

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

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227. “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.”

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

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

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

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

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232. “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

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

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

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235. “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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236. “And Emilie opened the door.”

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

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238. “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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239. “She’ll still be herself and I’ll be learning who I am now.”

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

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242. “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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243. “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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244. “I smiled into my pillow, closed my eyes, wished for the feeling to last. I saw our futures unfolding, all pink clouds and cacti and bright sun and forever.”

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245. “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

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

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

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249. “I feel alive with the truth.”

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250. “If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.”

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