217 Quotes by Nina LaCour

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    It was terrifying, the idea that we could fall asleep girls, minty breathed and nightgowned, and wake to find ourselves wolves. “I.

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    Sometimes when my favorite songs are on I have to stop what I’m doing and lie down on my carpet and just listen. I feel every word they’re singing. Every note. And to think that in twenty years, or ten years, or five, even, I might hear those same songs and just, like, bob my head or something is horrible. Then I’m sure I’ll think that I know more about life, but it isn’t true. I’ll know less.

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    When you love someone, you are sure. You don’t need time to decide. You don’t say stop and start over and over, like you’re playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.

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    All the things we could be doing now if she weren’t busy wondering if the world holds better things for her than me.

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    We are all humans; we all wake up messy and confused.

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    Because in the conversation beneath this one, what we’re really saying is I am an imperfect person. Here are my failures. Do you want me anyway?

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    I used to cry over a story and then close the book, and it all would be over. Now everything resonates, sticks like a splinter, festers.

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    When you’re friends with someone for such a long, it’s easy to feel like she belongs to you, like the version of the person you became friends with is the only version.

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