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We Are Okay
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"We Are Okay" Quotes

Marin navigates grief and isolation while confronting her past as she spends a winter break alone at college.

Quotes

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.

Nina LaCour

lossconnection

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching, and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Nina LaCour

lostsearching

I used to think the whole world was broken. Now I know that's not true. The world is only partially broken. It's also partially beautiful.

Nina LaCour

perspectivebeauty

I don't know what I'm doing here, but I know it's right to be here.

Nina LaCour

uncertaintyintuition

Everything is beautiful and everything hurts.

Nina LaCour

beautypain

Sometimes you think you've found love, when it's really just one of those objects that are shiny in a certain light--a trophy, say, or a ring. Then it turns out that you don't love them at all, you love the light.

Nina LaCour

loveillusion

You can be in love and you can be in love and you can be in love. It's not the easiest thing to be.

Nina LaCour

lovechallenges

The most beautiful things are the most hidden.

Nina LaCour

beautyhidden

I think there's a difference between loving the idea of someone and the actual person.

Nina LaCour

lovereality

Sometimes it's the very otherness of a person that makes them the most beautiful.

Nina LaCour

beautyuniqueness