All I have is a life's worth of school days. What came before school I can't remember. You can only sketch so many desks and teachers and chalkboards. You can only come home to so many dinners and homework assignments and nights of taking the garbage out. Furthermore, you can only go to so many museum field trips before you start to wonder, Is this it?

— Nina LaCour

And I want to tell you about everything, but I can't because I couldn't stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I'm normal. I just really need that from you.

— Nina LaCour

And then we get new homes that we make for ourselves.

— Nina LaCour

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.

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

Don't you want to kiss me?' she asks. She smiles just a little, a hopeful, sweet smile, but buried in it is that confidence that slays me.

— Nina LaCour

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

— Nina LaCour

Friendship is about more than facts. It's about knowing what someone is thinking, or knowing enough to know that you don't. But I guess it's also about not letting too much time go by without asking them questions, so you don't end up looking at them one afternoon, the sun so bright you have to squint, realizing that you hardly recognize the person they've become.

— 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

He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. Furthermore, he loves me that much.

— Nina LaCour