And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life.

— Nicole Lyons

I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole.

— Nicole Lyons

I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.

— Nicole Lyons

If I could claw the words out of the back of my throat and give them, dripping of me, to you, we would talk of sticky hands, and the messes they make.

— Nicole Lyons

I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes of every bridge I ever burned. I fear no hell from you.

— Nicole Lyons

I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as the ones I fight when my mind splinters and races, to swallow me into my own madness, again.

— Nicole Lyons

I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars.

— Nicole Lyons

I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere, picks my soul up off of these pages and thinks, "I would have loved her.

— Nicole Lyons

I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper.

— Nicole Lyons

I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless.

— Nicole Lyons