Watch Over Me Quotes

“I'm learning that it's good to think about what scares you. To bring it into the light. Even to hold it in your hands, if you can, and feel how it can't hurt you anymore. To think of it and say, 'I am not afraid.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“Maybe the fear doesn’t ever actually go away. Maybe we have to keep on working. We thought it would be simple, but it isn’t. We thought we could be finished, but maybe . . . maybe we’ll never be entirely finished.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“We are all humans; we all wake up messy and confused.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“Nobody's crazy here. We just see different things.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“I took the chain between the tips of my fingers, lifted it to the light. Each delicate link sparkled in the sun. It would have been lovely on anyone's wrist. It would have been precious, with or without me. But it was everything I wanted, because I chose it to be mine.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“There will be a night, some night, I am sure of it, when the mystery of all of this won’t be so difficult anymore. None of us will ever understand all of it, but you will not be in the dark.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“A leap. Look how precious you were. A spin. How worthy of love you were. A dip. Look at your heart, intact. Reach to the sky. What a miracle it was. Swoop to the grass. How steadily it beat for the people you loved.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“I became aware, then, of the way I moved through the world. No unusual scars or crooked bones. Nothing about the way I looked at first glance that gave me away. I wondered who had done that to him. Who had left it untreated.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“But it was everything I wanted, because I chose it to be mine.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“It was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“It becomes home if you let it,he says.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“The common man pays for the internet,” he went on. “He pays for cable, for Christ’s sake! Because he needs more and more and more! Like anyone could watch one hundred channels. What good is a life if you live it like that? Glued to a lightbox showing you pictures. Telling you when to laugh and what to fear. The common man lives this way because he has lost the intuition of our ancestors. All you need in order to live is this.” He took two fingers and pressed them to my mother’s wrist.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“I was surprised, at first, by her sadness. I had thought she felt only delight—but sadness, of course, was a feeling all of us have always known.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“I had been haunting myself as punishment, I supposed. But it was difficult, when ghosts were everywhere, to figure out what was real and what was imagined.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“The trick is not to let the line intimidate you. Everyone can wait a few minutes for flowers. There's no rush.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“I wanted a bird-ghost. Night fell and I returned to my cabin with the record under my arm, carrying the player by the handle, watching for a glowing, flying thing.

I wanted a kind of logic. A reason. An assurance that things worked the way they were supposed to. Creatures lived and they died and sometimes they returned in a different form. Sometimes they haunted the living, and sometimes they let us be.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me

“I'm learning that it's good to think about what scares you. To bring it into the light. Even to hold it in your hands, if you can, and feel how it can't hurt you anymore. To think of it and say, "I am not afraid.'"

Lee watched me so closely. I could tell he understood.

'It takes away its power, to look at it that way.”
― Nina LaCour, Watch Over Me