19 Quotes & Sayings By Nicole Lyons

Nicole Lyons is a bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. In 2014, she published the novel, Promises of the Heart, which was a "New York Times" Best Seller. Her novels have been translated into many languages worldwide. Her work has been featured on NPR's Morning Edition, Fox News, and Good Morning America Radio Read more

For over 25 years, she has written for newspapers and magazines in the United States and Asia, and is a former editor for women's publications. She currently lives in Coeur d'Alene with her husband and two sons.

I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl.
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I am a world of uncertainties disguised as a girl. Nicole Lyons
I hope that someday when I am gone, someone, somewhere,...
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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
She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting...
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She will blaze through you like a gypsy wildfire. Igniting you soul and dancing in its flames. And when she is gone, the smell of her smoke will be the only thing left to soothe you. Nicole Lyons
She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart,...
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She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind. Nicole Lyons
She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage,...
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She is of the strangest beauty and the darkest courage, and when she walks with intent the earth trembles beneath her feet. Nicole Lyons
I have licked the fire and danced in the ashes...
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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 kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame...
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I kept you so well, buried beneath the darkest shame and stilled with filthy lies. Perhaps I should have dug deeper. Nicole Lyons
Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that....
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Whatever it is that stirs your soul, listen to that. Everything else is just noise. Nicole Lyons
I promised to touch your soul. I never said it...
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I promised to touch your soul. I never said it would be painless. Nicole Lyons
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Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go. Nicole Lyons
She will rise. With a spine of steel and a...
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She will rise. With a spine of steel and a roar like thunder, she will rise. Nicole Lyons
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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
And that is the nature of us poets and whores,...
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And that is the nature of us poets and whores, to make things hard: dicks, choices... life. Nicole Lyons
I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere...
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I hold you in the safest place I keep. Somewhere between memories and scars. Nicole Lyons
I have never seen battles quite as terrifyingly beautiful as...
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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
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The deepest pain I ever felt was denying my own feelings to make everyone else comfortable. Nicole Lyons
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They say she is too much to handle, but when the moon pulls the tide and the wolves howl her name, blessed are the ones who have been taken by her wild. Nicole Lyons
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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