Nikki Elizabeth > Quotes

“It all felt oddly cyclical – he called, she came, he tried to lure her into staying. She'd consider staying, though she didn't want to. They'd likely do this artful dance through the final stretch of eternity.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild

“We are worthy of this past because we are worthy of a great future.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“I hope this note will be found in a future where open parks are left for society to enjoy and where people are capable of critical thinking. Where people think critically about the world, not just themselves.
Perhaps such a future does exist, and that is what I'm fighting for. And I am fighting. Just by writing, I'm fighting.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part One: Experiment

“Instead of praying for a dead thing's soul, I prefer to invest in the longevity of its life.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild

“There's tremendous beauty in you.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part One: Experiment

“It was mundane. Pedestrian. But there was something beautiful about that mud-encrusted snow. How many people had passed through on their commutes to work, splashing a bit of mud as their car moved forward? With each layer, the story that snowbank had to tell grew. It was a tale of a journey, with each hero heading in the same direction, if only for a moment in time.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild

“Life's a funny thing, she thought. It's as unpredictable as wind. Forces outside your control may cause it to shift in a rather destructive way. But that unpredictable gale can be so welcome on a pleasant summer day.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild

“I couldn't help but marvel at how beauty remained so immutable in such a broken world.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“How horrible it is that tyranny can lurk under mundane surfaces until it has the social graces to rear its ugly head. When it finally feels emboldened to reveal itself, it does so not with the clumsiness of a brutish regime, but with unsettling elegance capable of captivating hearts and minds.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“This was the cost of ambition. Loneliness, heartbreak, stoicism.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, The Inconvenience of Time

“Co-conspirators always make the best lovers, I always say.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part One: Experiment

“I sympathize with the inconvenience of time. It never happens when we want it to. I think love comes when we need it, though.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, The Inconvenience of Time

“I value your business, but I value my regularly scheduled cadence of not cleaning up brain matter more.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, The Inconvenience of Time

“If you don't remember them, they'll be no better than the recycled cremains we build our homes and cities out of. Their memory makes them human; it makes them real.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part One: Experiment

“It's hard to mourn someone you know you shouldn't.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“The government cannot compete with an empire.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“Maybe it took the depths of darkness for humanity to first glimpse its own potential.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, The Inconvenience of Time

“You and I, in essence, are made from the same stardust. If everyone else in the world was fire, we would be water. We're complementary in every way. I suppose I can see some ancient magic brewing in that sort of environment.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Peace on Earth & Mercy Mild

“The unfolding events of history and circumstance have placed us at the center of magnificent change, and we carry a responsibility to see it through.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“No respectable lady of my upbringing would dare be anyone other than a wife. I find that to be a waste of human life. Most politicians would make cracks about it being a waste of resources.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part One: Experiment

“A product manager follows a product through its lifecycle, working with engineers and marketers alike to identify strengths, narrow in on which features could use refinement, and analyze data to determine the best possible audience.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Poor Vinnie's Valor

“Comfort leads to complaisance. I will never be blindly complaisant again.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“The loss of rights had been slow at first, almost imperceptible as it crept into our daily lives. Then, without warning, that slow decay transformed into a rapid and unrelenting torrent. Perhaps that was how losing rights went in every decaying society.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“Our flaws add to the beauty of diversity – we'd never know to appreciate it without a nuanced perspective.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Part Two: Execution

“Sure, we're blood. But it's the sisterly love we share that binds us beyond our genetics.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Poor Vinnie's Valor

“Living in a portion of Tesland that was prone to earthquakes, there was mass fear surrounding the possibility of being crushed by the upper floor of a house. Supposedly, one couldn't waste time – or be wasted by time – if clocks weren't present on the base story of a home.”
― Nikki Elizabeth, Poor Vinnie's Valor