217 Quotes by Nina LaCour

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

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.