Hold Still By Nina Lacour Quotes & Sayings

She won't ask if I'm okay because she'll already know that for us Are you okay? is an impossible question. — Nina LaCour

How can a democratic discourse exist in a corporate owned informational system? Who, for example, possesses freedom of speech in such a society? — Herbert Schiller

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

I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see. — Nina LaCour

When the bell rings, and lunch is over, I decide to come back here tomorrow, and the next day. I tell myself it really isn't that bad. — Nina LaCour

My best friend is dead, and I could have saved her. It's so wrong so completely and painfully wrong, that I walked through my front door tonight smiling. — Nina LaCour

We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these. — Ernest Everett Just

Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time. — E.L. Konigsburg

As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths. — Justine Picardie

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. — Nina LaCour

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. — Nina LaCour

I was such a quiet kid, so shy and calm and in my own head. Of course I knew about being sad. Maybe that's the reason I saved all the things I thought were pretty. — Nina LaCour

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world. — Adrian Tomine

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. — Alan Watts

Which choice do you think is easier? One that comes with a threat? Or one that comes from love? — Dan Skinner

People take one another for granted — Nina LaCour

I'll make a swing so I can reach the places I can't reach yet. — Nina LaCour

I'm willing to submit to the sovereignty of the consumer, but I just want to know what they say. — Michael Hyatt

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. — Nina LaCour

He is Romeo, and he is heartbroken. Every word is wistful. When he says, 'O, teach me how I should forget to think!' I, for the first time, see what the big deal is about Shakespeare. — Nina LaCour

How does your life move forward, when all you want to do is hold still. — Nina LaCour

Each time a breeze starts, I feel the air all the way through me. — Nina LaCour

Women have been funny for years. — Beth Behrs

I think of the snow, falling, drifting upward. Of extending the ephemeral. Spaces follow spaces, burgeoning, and the air smells so sweet. — Meia Geddes