Nikki St. Crowe > Quotes

“If you are not the most interesting person you know, then you're doing it wrong.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“She’ll checkmate your ass before you even know you’re sitting at the board.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“Maybe we're all mad, in our own way.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“I can feel your love like a million golden stars in the endless abyss that is me.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“How much you break is entirely up to you.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Most men don’t realize this,” she said once, “but us girls, we have toolboxes too. Ours aren’t stuffed with hammers and wrenches and screwdrivers. We have these.” She gave her boobs a squeeze. “And this.” Then tapped at her temple. “And there’s no greater power than tits and brains, baby girl.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Even the mighty oak believes she is strong until a man comes along with an ax to chop her down.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Once you know you can lose something, it’s hard to dismiss the fear that you could lose it again.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“He is an unholy sight. And I will never stop sinning for him.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“I am dead inside. And so fucking bored. And the only thing I have to look forward to is being kidnapped by a myth. Happy fucking birthday to me.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“She needs to know…there are no white knights here. Just monsters. And I am the worst one.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Maybe that's what love really is, at the heart of it - choosing the pain with the pleasure.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Three, two, one. One, two, three. Better watch out: Peter Pan is going to murder thee.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“I’m being finger fucked by a myth.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“In the light, I will treat you like a queen, but in the dark, you will be my whore.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“Dying would be an awfully big adventure.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“She’s the brightest shining light in the dark. The second star on the right.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“Hindsight is a zero-sum game where time is the winner and you’re the loser. Always.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“I’m a china cup that has been broken so many times that I’m never sure if I’m a cup or just separate pieces held together by glue and sheer determination, molded into a cup-like shape. I know how to crack and I know how to mend.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“To all the girls who have broken and mended.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“To all the girls who were ever afraid to embrace their dark side.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“Don’t cry, little girl,” he says. “It was a long time ago.”  “Yes, but time means nothing to heartbreak.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“This one is like a feral cat that wants to push the saucer of milk off the table just to watch it spill. I like that about her.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“I will pick Darling over my own wings because with her I am already flying. She is mine and I am hers.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Dark One

“I see tonight she’s chosen violence.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, Their Vicious Darling

“I’m stronger than you think,” I tell him. “Even the mighty oak believes she is strong until a man comes along with an ax to chop her down.” “Is that you then? Do you have an ax?” “All men are born with an ax in their hands, Darling. To take the measure of a man, you just have to pay attention to how he wields it.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“Darling,” he says and tsk-tsks at me. “Good girls wait their turn.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“If you don’t hold yourself on a pedestal, then who will?”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King

“I have lived a long time and I’ve seen a great many things, and I can assure you, there is no point in the future where problems do not exist. Where your doubts are no more. Your hardships gone. Where things are easy.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Fae Princes

“The problem is, I don’t know how to stop pretending.”
― Nikki St. Crowe, The Never King