Top 40 Nikki St. Crowe Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “There is always something to glean from words, which ones, how they’re said. If they’re used as knives or balms.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

2. “Darling,” he says and tsk-tsks at me. “Good girls wait their turn.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

3. “I can feel your love like a million golden stars in the endless abyss that is me.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

4. “Three, two, one. One, two, three. Better watch out: Peter Pan is going to murder thee.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

5. “She’s the brightest shining light in the dark. The second star on the right.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

6. “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

7. “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

8. “To all the girls who were ever afraid to embrace their dark side.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

9. “How much you break is entirely up to you.”

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10. “We touch the grass,” Nani had said to me when I was a boy, as she’d drug her fingers through the feathered heads of the blooming stalks, “and the grass remembers. If we cut the grass, it will forget who we are and we never want the island to forget.” She’d turned to me then and patted the top of my head. “The same is said for our hair. It is a physical manifestation of our memories and our experiences. We touch our hair with our fingers and we will remember who we are.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

11. “She’ll checkmate your ass before you even know you’re sitting at the board.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

12. “When you grow up around prostitutes, you learn a thing or two about tricks. Mine has always been setting hooks.”

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13. “To all the girls who have broken and mended.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

14. “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

15. “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

16. “We will all have her, but Vane might get a part of her that the rest of us can never see.”

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17. “Even the mighty oak believes she is strong until a man comes along with an ax to chop her down.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

18. “The problem is, I don’t know how to stop pretending.”

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19. “He is an unholy sight. And I will never stop sinning for him.”

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20. “If you don’t hold yourself on a pedestal, then who will?”

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21. “I see tonight she’s chosen violence.”

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22. “Women fascinate me. They are almost always underestimated, which makes them potentially some of the most lethal opponents. Like walking up to a jungle cat thinking you’re going to give its head a gentle little pat and instead it bites off your whole goddamn arm.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

23. “Because I will chase you,” he says, with a sinister bend to his voice. “And you don’t want to know what happens when I catch you.” The Darling visibly trembles. Good girl.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

24. “Swallow your food before you choke on it.” I do and then, “So it’s okay to choke on Lost Boy cock, but not chicken and biscuits?”

— Nikki St. Crowe

25. “She laughed. “Baby girl, I don’t do boyfriends. Men are my toys and I play with them regularly.”

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26. “Paper can say a lot about a man. So can his handwriting. His clothing. His posture. His diction. I suppose everything can say a lot about a man.”

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27. “Let’s dry our eyes and go murder our mother.”

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28. “Maybe we’re all mad, in our own way.”

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29. “Because if I am caught in the sunlight, I will turn to ash. It takes me a few seconds to realize that I no longer have to worry about the light. I have my shadow. Neverland is mine again and I am hers.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

30. “There’s something about seeing the supposed nice guy act not so nice.”

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31. “He’s almost too beautiful, too dream-like.”

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32. “Will she be okay without me? She loved me fiercely, but her love always hurt.”

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33. “It is a mortal sentiment, taking things for granted, missing something that is lost, but I understand it more than ever.”

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34. “Dying would be an awfully big adventure.”

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35. “Women fascinate me. They are almost always underestimated, which makes them potentially some of the most lethal opponents.”

— Nikki St. Crowe

36. “I think you care very little,” she goes on, “because you think that keeps you safe. If you care for very little, you have very little to lose.”

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37. “Hindsight is a zero-sum game where time is the winner and you’re the loser. Always.”

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38. “But it means I need to hold them both together, because without one, I will lose the other and without both...”

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39. “Clearly Holt knows nothing about the might of women.”

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40. “You find what you need when you need it.”

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41. “I look around the room at the four men before me, on their knees. I love them, each of them, in my own way and they love me in turn. My vicious men. All of them, mine.”

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42. “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