Top 40 Amerie Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “No relationship is perfect and no human being is perfect.”

— Amerie

2. “Sometimes the only way to fix a broken wall is to patch it up from within.”

— Amerie

3. “I still listen to tracks sometimes and hear some of the harmonies and its just amazing.”

— Amerie

4. “Some things once heard can’t be unheard.”

— Amerie

5. “When we’re children, we can’t wait to grow up. We want to be adult – or giant-sized, yet somewhere along the way, we no longer admire and idolize the difference that we sense; we become afraid of the unknown.”

— Amerie

6. “It’s why they leave the occasional crop circle even though you aren’t supposed to do that anymore, just to let the world know WE ARE HERE.”

— Amerie

7. “Sometimes it takes time to see the value in something.”

— Amerie

8. “Your body is a wonderland of terror and fear-inducing proportions. Forget the strictures of the male gaze. Dress to impress or cause extreme distress. If other people’s bodies are temples, yours is a war machine with built-in booby traps, baby.”

— Amerie

9. “The kiss lights you up with the same electricity that it always does – victory as charged as a lightning storm and high-voltage love.”

— Amerie

10. “But this isn’t TV – it’s real life.”

— Amerie

11. “I loved the stories he told. Tales of sailors lost at sea who came back telling of merfolk and Sirens. He told me of the townspeople who laughed at them and those who believed. He told me of wars fought in distant lands, and gods who were loved and gods who were feared, and how his favorite sound was church bells on Sunday.”

— Amerie

12. “Happy not being evil! You’re welcome!”

— Amerie

13. “People are peculiar. They have a way of seeing only what they want, of not seeing anything they don’t.”

— Amerie

14. “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth.”

— Amerie

15. “You have to be in charge of telling your own story. And sometimes the princess needs to get off her ass, pick up a sword, and slay the dragon herself.”

— Amerie

16. “Being brave is a risk, not a mistake.”

— Amerie

17. “You were called an angel today. Prove it to yourself.”

— Amerie

18. “It’s a dirty business, balancing the ledgers of the universe, but somebody’s got to do it.”

— Amerie

19. “Forget what the world and society and your family want you to be. You know why? Because you are going to shape and remold that as you exist in your perfect form upon the ruinous remains of the earth.”

— Amerie

20. “I’m going to see it one day. It’s all in the mind, you know. Be clear about your desires and you’ll achieve them.”

— Amerie

21. “Humans didn’t have a choice before, believing in us or not. They were forced to see us, reckon with us.”

— Amerie

22. “I can be more. My own voice sounds so much stronger in my mind than it ever has in real life, and for one second I really believe it. I can be.”

— Amerie

23. “Hiding doesn’t bother you. If believers never see God’s face, why should they see yours?”

— Amerie

24. “People leave and enter your life for a reason.”

— Amerie

25. “He was right. You are an angel. But even an angel has to put her halo down from time to time.”

— Amerie

26. “A Rebel with a capital R. That was what I wanted to be.”

— Amerie

27. “There was a time, ages ago, when humans looked to the sky and just knew there was something powerful up here.”

— Amerie

28. “The gathered merfolk parted to let me pass, their eyes following me with wary distrust. This time, for the first time, they had every reason to be frightened of me. I was the stuff of their childhood nightmares, after all. Those sickly, slimy creatures that lurked in the depths, drunk on their own wickedness.”

— Amerie

29. “You can’t do that.” “Says who?” “The rules!” “Which we know don’t matter, Holmes. Not if we both agree to stop believing in them.”

— Amerie

30. “It’s all about you.” “So what if it is?”

— Amerie

31. “If we are only as big as our dreams, Jack is the giant, here.”

— Amerie

32. “I know now. I know that I am whole, that I am strong, and I am free to make my life what I will.”

— Amerie

33. “I know humans like to think they’re special, but it’s galling that they’ve forgotten about us. There are rumors, but all are chalked up to fairy tales, myths, and fables. Still, people are curious, which I was counting on.”

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34. “Parents, family, and friends tell you that you can be whatever you want to be. But what they really mean is whatever you want as long as it fits in their neat, little box. And for a woman exercising her command, that box is restrictive as hell. Destroy that box and the horse it rode in on. Light it on fire for good measure. Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

— Amerie

35. “You’re never supposed to kill people. Maybe you’re unaware, but it’s actually against the law. Don’t do it. Instead, get a life coach. Do not kill said life coach.”

— Amerie

36. “I believe I am best-placed to decide what I am. I am more myself than I ever was.”

— Amerie

37. “Young face. Old eyes.”

— Amerie

38. “Don’t go’ is not the same as ‘stay’.”

— Amerie

39. “Just because something isn’t from down there doesn’t make it any less real.”

— Amerie

40. “And if it were up to us, when we’re looking into the soul-dead, murderous eyes of our foe – we want a powerful, badass woman looking right back at us. Briefly. Before she slits our throats.”

— Amerie

41. “Humans have forgotten they don’t know everything.”

— Amerie

42. “Villains take the risks our heroes can’t afford to take and make the choices our heroes are too afraid to make.”

— Amerie

43. “After all, what was a lifetime of pain when coupled with a lifetime of bliss.”

— Amerie

44. “Even as he looks upon your face, masked with flesh so rotten it’s gone charcoal black, he calls you an angel. This is a first. You’ve been called a god for your power and you’ve been called the devil for your fierceness, but you’ve never been called an angel for your services.”

— Amerie

45. “My uncle has a cat.” “You ever catch it slinking around, looking suspicious?” Jack doesn’t answer. “Exactly. And it’s smaller to you than you are to me. But still you see.”

— Amerie

46. “Origin stories are all about transformations.”

— Amerie

47. “I’m not a ghost trapped in purgatory, nor a girl waiting for men to decide her fate.”

— Amerie

48. “What is it you’re looking for?” “A key,” he said calmly. “To a door that people don’t want opened.”

— Amerie