Quotes By Author: 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.”

“Dignity is overrated. You know what trumps dignity? Kissing.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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