Quotes from Nicole Blackman

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

The ambitions are wake up, breathe, keep breathing.

One day I'll give birth to a tiny baby girl and when she's born she'll scream and I'll tell her to never stop I will kiss her before I lay her down at night and will tell her a story so she knows how it is and how it must be for her to survive I'll tell her to set things on fire and keep them burning I'll teach her that fire will not consume her that she must use it

Someone's writing down your mistakes, someone's documenting your downfall.

You will start a band. You will start a magazine. You will start a family. You will finish nothing.

I know it's tragic to be tender. I know it's dangerous to be kind. I know it's vicious to care. Listen to me. I know what's going to happen to you. You don't need a window, you need a fire escape. You'll need a skylight to get where you're going. I can't tell you where.

At any moment, you know, your manufactured cool could blow.

Whether you're in bed or in court, everybody gets off.

When I knew what I had to do / I took all my notebooks, all my manuscripts / and ate them page by page / so I could take my words with me

The flowers need watering the silver needs a shine. Daughter is a magnet drawn back to where she was last safe. She touches the tablecloth like a talisman. Tell me who I was. Tell me what I've become.

I remember unloading guns beneath a complex heaven

Memory is a funny thing. Makes you remember things that didn't really happen and forget things that did. I'm so scared I'll forget because if I forget all these things that happened then there will be no one on earth who remembers them. And if they're forgotten it's like they never happened. No one can prove it. Some writer said that people become our memories of them. So I guess if no one remembers you, then you weren't really here. - almost him