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.

—Nina LaCour in Hold Still

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About Nina LaCour

Nina LaCour is an American author, primarily known for writing young adult literature with LGBTQ romance storylines. Her novel We Are Okay won the Michael L. Printz Award in 2018.

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

—Nina LaCour in Hold Still

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You see, for me, memories are difficult. Very often, they hurt. A curious thing about grief is the way it takes your entire life, all those foundational years that made you who you are, and makes them so painful to look back upon because of the absence there, that suddenly they're inaccessible.

—Casey McQuiston in White & Royal Blue

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There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realize, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, though you can put your hand out to where things were and feel that tense, shining dullness of the space where the memories are.

—Helen Macdonald in H is for Hawk

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Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.

—Barbara Kingsolver in The Lacuna

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

—Nicholas Sparks in The Wedding

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Some days I imagined getting on a bus and leaving this town behind. The memories weren't good. At least most of them weren't.

—Abbi Glines in Because of Low

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