217 Quotes by Nina LaCour

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    A leap. Look how precious you were. A spin. How worthy of love you were. A dip. Look at your heart, intact. Reach to the sky. What a miracle it was. Swoop to the grass. How steadily it beat for the people you loved.

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    If our past selves got a glimpse of us now, what would they make of us?

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    I’ve been waiting for this for so long – something new, life after high school.

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    Nobody’s crazy here. We just see different things.

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

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    The morning fog spreads from tree to tree like a blanket of regret.

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    Then, without really realizing it, I start to think of one thing I did wrong for each tree I look at. Wide oak- I didn’t tell anyone when Ingrid cut herself. Baby oak- the time I told her I was getting sick of hearing about Jayson’s arms and his blue shirt... Then I look out to where there’s this huge group of trees in the distance, and I count those for all the times I called her some name, or told her she was being stupid- because even though I was always joking, it might have hurt.

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    I sleep through the next day. Each time I go to the bathroom, I try not to look in the mirror. Once, I catch my reflection: it looks like I’ve been punched in both eyes. I can’t talk about the day that follows that.

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    I know that I’m holding myself back. I know that something needs to change, and that I need to be the one to change it. And I know – I know – that if you’re patient with me, what I find on the other end of it, once the towers have burned down, will be you.

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