217 Quotes by Nina LaCour

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    No one will know if you stay in bed all day. No one will know if you wear the same sweatpants for the entire month, if you eat every meal in front of television shows and use T-shirts as napkins. Go ahead and listen to that same song on repeat until its sound turns to nothing and you sleep the winter away. I.

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    We were masters of collusion, Gramps and I. In that, at least, we were together.

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    No one talked about the way the summer was supposed to unfold or the places we’d find ourselves in the fall.

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    I hate that word. Straight. At the very least, those of us who are nonstraight should get called curvy. Or scenic. Actually, I like that: ‘Do you think she’s straight?’ ‘Oh no. She’s scenic.

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    We are all on our way to the same party even if it’s taking place in hundreds of different bars and living rooms. We are going out to celebrate ourselves and one another. To fall in love or to remind ourselves of all the people we’ve loved in the past.

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    One of the first lectures my history professor gave us was about this guy William Morris. He said that everything you own should be either useful or beautiful. It’s a lot to aspire to, but I figured why not try? I saw these in a potter’s studio a couple days afterward and I bought them.

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    She looks away and I wonderif it’s because I’m telling her things she can’t relate to. Maybe she thinks I’m being dramatic. Maybe I am. But I know that there’s a difference between how I used to understand things and how I do now. 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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    I sit next to Violet and hold her hand. I sit next to Wyatt and dab glitter on his cheekbones. I sit next to Lehna and make dinner plans for after graduation. I sit next to Greer and tell them I loved their poem. I sit next to Mark and say, “Let’s know each other like this for a very long time.

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