We Are Okay
Nina LaCour
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”
“We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.”
“I thought that it was more likely the opposite. I must have shut grief out. Found it in books. Cried over fiction instead of the truth. The truth was unconfined, unadorned. There was no poetic language to it, no yellow butterflies, no epic floods. There wasn't a town trapped underwater or generations of men with the same name destined to make the same mistakes. The truth was vast enough to drown in.”
“I wish you more happiness than can fit in a person.”
“The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.”
“It’s a dark place, not knowing. It’s difficult to surrender to. But I guess it’s where we live most of the time. I guess it’s where we all live, so maybe it doesn’t have to be so lonely. Maybe I can settle into it, cozy up to it, make a home inside uncertainty.”
“I wonder if there's a secret current that connects people who have lost something. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn't yours anymore.”
“What I mean is don't be a person who seeks out grief. There is enough of that in life.”
“And I think of how time passes so differently for different people.”
“I could say the night felt magical, but that would be embellishment. That would be romanticization. What it actually felt like was life.”
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Book Keywords:
me-too, truth, denial, ironic, graduation, nostalgia
