Nikki Lang > Quotes

“This, I realize. Is intimacy. This is more intimate than being stripped bare and having sex. This is more intimate than learning how to do something for the very first time. This is the type of intimacy I’ve waited my entire life for.”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville

“My gaze drops to his heavy lips that curl up in a permanent amused smirk, and then I hear him ask the question I didn’t know I was waiting for.
“So, shall we get that room?”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville

“Music has that ability, you know. The ability to transmute your pain into something poetic. The ability to move your heart when it’s feeling joy or hold your hand when sadness is your only companion. It can time-stamp a perfect moment etching it into the archives of your mind. It transcends all other mediums. Music is the beginning and end, of every human emotion.”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville

“I can almost see two timelines branching off in front of me. The first is the one where I did indeed go inside and get a tattoo with a near stranger. The second is the one where I don’t, effectively dousing the evening in cold water and ending it.”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville

“But I’m a deer caught in the headlights after being nailed by a car because his smile blinds me momentarily stupid. It’s not necessarily bright, nor perfectly straight, but it’s so open and it shines a high beam on the most closed-off parts of myself.”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville

“If she were a siren on the rocks, he’d crash his ship just to get closer and I want to punch him in the teeth because if anyone is crashing for her, it’s me.

The lips I haven’t thought of in years press to his lips, and I’m swept away into the inky black waters of regret with a crushing sense of loss.”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville

“Fate isn’t real, I remind myself. It’s for people who don’t feel in control of their own lives.”
― Nikki Lang, One Night in Nashville