Nikki Rae > Nikki's Quotes

“A Searcher, a Wolf Son and a Warrior,” she announced. I suppressed a laugh. I almost expected her to say “walked into a bar.”
― H.D. Gordon, Blood Warrior

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Maybe I should punch myself in the face and see if you scream.”
― H.D. Gordon, Redemption

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“The best listeners listen between the lines.”
― Nina Malkin, Swoon

“My name is Abbey. And I'm in love with a ghost.”
― Jessica Verday, The Hidden

“Nobody can hurt me without my permission.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“It doesn’t matter what we are. It matters what we do.”
― Michelle Hodkin, The Evolution of Mara Dyer

“As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.”
― H.D. Gordon

“The longer and more carefully we look at a funny story, the sadder it becomes.”
― Nikolai V. Gogol

“But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.”
― Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid

“Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
― Franz Kafka

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Evolve? Like a Pokemon?' I have no idea why I say this. I think I'm kind of going into shock, and the first thing that pops into my head when he says evolve is Charmander evolving into Charizard.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes they know about it. More often they don't.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Monsters never truly go away. They claw their way to the surface again eventually.”
― Nikki Rae, Sun Poisoned

“Love is a monster.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Some monsters disguise themselves so well you don’t realize that they’re monsters until it’s too late. You check all of the usual places: under the bed, in the closet, behind the shower curtain, around that suspicious, dark corner of your room. No, some monsters don’t look like monsters at all. But they are, have been, and always will be there.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“I tell myself that this is okay, but I realize that I don’t have to. This is what I want. Him. Me. Closer”
― Nikki Rae, Sun Poisoned

“Lies are like poison. If you get a little bit in your system, it spreads until it destroys you”
― Nikki Rae, Sun Poisoned

“I want to tell him I love him; I try to say the words I feel in my gut and my heart and every inch of me. But nothing comes out.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”
― Neil Gaiman

“Myles kisses me back, almost hesitating before he does.
But I don’t give him the chance to stop me. It’s like it’s not me doing these things, but some piece of myself that’s been hidden away until now and has taken advantage of my current mental state to emerge. A part of my brain, or heart, or soul that needs to keep my lips moving against his, that’s running my hands through his smooth, soft hair, that’s pressing my body against his.
And it wants more.
For a second, I’m sure Myles is going to pull away, but I push my body harder into him, circling my arms around his waist as his hands stroke my hair gently, like he’s not sure what else he’s supposed to do with them. He’s close. So close I can feel every muscle in his chest, every whisper of a breath he lets in or out.
I don’t know how we end up on the bed...”
― Nikki Rae, Sun Poisoned

“Love doesn’t exist, you see. It’s just another shadowy figure that goes bump in the night.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Tim Curry is God. He will distract me.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Monsters can live inside a person. Sometimes, they know about it. More often, they don’t. The monster makes them feel safe, or at the very least, better. As long as you know it’s there, you can co-exist with it. Give it what it wants, and it will return the favor. Other times, the monster takes over.
Bares its teeth.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“Sometimes, thinking can be a bad thing.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“I tried to tell him to stop, knowing full well that he would not. I tried to tell him it hurt, when I knew he simply did not care.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine

“So, you don’t think I’m strange?' he asks after a while.
Suddenly, remembering why we’re in this situation, I snort to show him that I’m in no mood for a serious conversation. 'No. I’m the strange one.'
'No. You’re not.' He’s serious and looking straight at me. 'I think you’re unhappy and don’t know how to handle it.”
― Nikki Rae, Sunshine