Nina Lacour Quotes

I don't want to hurt you or anybody so please forget about me. Just try. Find yourself a better friend.

~ Nina Lacour

There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can just be like this forever' but of course nothing can ever stay just how it is forever.

~ Nina Lacour

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

~ Nina Lacour

The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.

~ Nina Lacour

It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.

~ Nina Lacour

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

~ Nina Lacour

dear today, i spend all of you pretending i'm okay when i'm not, pretending i'm happy when i'm not, pretending about everything to everyone.

~ Nina Lacour

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

~ Nina Lacour

There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.

~ Nina Lacour

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.

~ Nina Lacour

I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.

~ Nina Lacour

It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close.

~ Nina Lacour

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

I was so blinded by her talent that I didn't recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed her.

~ Nina Lacour

How it's so easy for her to not feel anything at all, to be just completely gone, to not be around to see how fucked up she's made me. She got to disappear completely and I feel like I'm about to combust.

~ Nina Lacour

This is what I want so don't be sad.

~ Nina Lacour

I never realized what a 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. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, Soon this will be over. But I understand more now. About the way life works.

~ Nina Lacour

That's what friends do: they notice things. They're there for each other. They see what parents don't.

~ Nina Lacour

Friendship is about more than facts. It's about knowing what someone is thinking, or knowing enough to know that you don't. But I guess it's also about not letting too much time go by without asking them questions, so you don't end up looking at them one afternoon, the sun so bright you have to squint, realizing that you hardly recognize the person they've become.

~ Nina Lacour

It's about what I know is true. Because I'm looking at this bright red storm of color on a canvas, at all my delicate lines and passionate brushstrokes. I'm looking at something so urgent and true, so far beyond what I thought I was capable of making.

~ Nina Lacour

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty.

~ Nina Lacour

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare.

~ Nina Lacour

And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.

~ Nina Lacour

I want to confess. I thought that her story was comprised of scenes. I thought the tragedy could be glamorous and her grief could be undone by a sunnier future. I thought we could pinpoint dramatic events on a time line and call it a life.But I was wrong.

~ Nina Lacour

In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. 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

The sun stopped shining for me is all. The whole story is: I am sad. I am sad all the time and the sadness is so heavy that I can't get away from it. Not ever.

~ Nina Lacour

The sun stopped shining for me is all.

~ Nina Lacour

Whenever Ingrid and I got out of the suburbs, into Berkeley or San Francisco, and saw how other people lived, Ingrid would cry at the smallest of things- a little boy walking home by himself, a discarded cardboard sign saying HUNGRY PLEASE HELP. She would snap a picture, and by the time she lowered her camera, tears would already be falling. I always felt kind of guilty that I didn't feel as sad as she did, but now, watching Dylan, I think that's probably a good thing. I mean, you see a million terrible things every day, on the news and in the paper, and in real life. I'm not saying that it's stupid to feel sad, just that it would be impossible to let everything get to you and still get some sleep at night.

~ Nina Lacour

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

~ Nina Lacour

my life is just waiting for you to get started.

~ Nina Lacour

The first time she carved something into her skin, she used the sharp tip of an X-Acto knife. She lifted up her shirt to show me after the cuts had scabbed over. She had scrawled F*** YOU on her stomach. I stood quiet for a moment, feeling the breath get knocked out of me. I should have grabbed her arm and taken her straight to the nurse's office, into that small room with two cots covered in paper sheets and the sweet, stale medicinal

~ Nina Lacour

All I have is a life's worth of school days. What came before school I can't remember. You can only sketch so many desks and teachers and chalkboards. You can only come home to so many dinners and homework assignments and nights of taking the garbage out. You can only go to so many museum field trips before you start to wonder, Is this it?

~ Nina Lacour

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

~ Nina Lacour

It's a dark place, not knowing. It's difficult to surrender to. But I guess it's where we live most of the time. I guess it's where we all live, so maybe it doesn't have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.

~ Nina Lacour

My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.

~ Nina Lacour

There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.

~ Nina Lacour

And I want to tell you about everything but I can't because I couldn't stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I'm normal. I just really need that from you.

~ Nina Lacour

Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me.

~ Nina Lacour

My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her. It’s so wrong so completely and painfully wrong, that I walked through my front door tonight smiling.

~ Nina Lacour

I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, that I was too sheltered or too innocent or something. If she had told me why she cut herself all the time, or that it was the pills that made her act so spaced out, or that she was even on pills, or even saw doctors, or any of it, I would have done my best to help her. I'm not saying I'm a superhero. I'm not saying I would have just swooped down and saved her. I'm just saying the only reason everything was a waste was that she made it a waste. That whole time, back when I was just a normal kid in high school, living out my normal life, I really thought everything mattered.

~ Nina Lacour