--- title: "1 Years Lost Quotes By Nikki Grimes" description: "1 Years Lost quotes by Nikki Grimes. Plus more from Nikki Grimes and more Years Lost sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/nikki-grimes-17676_fear_the-crashing-sound-of-years-lost-shatter_2472372.png" --- > [“The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/the-crashing-sound-of-years-lost-shattered-in-her-ears-and-new-fears/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b64/nikki-grimes-17676_fear_the-crashing-sound-of-years-lost-shatter_2472372.png) ## More by Nikki Grimes > [“Do something about it, or shut up.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/do-something-about-it-or-shut-up/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [Look around. Take the tour. Fear hangs on the wall and shame sometimes. Emotional dislocation too. But I am brave in my admission. Are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/look-around-take-the-tour-fear-hangs-on-the-wall-and-shame-sometimes/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. That's just the nature of the beast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/something-about-your-life-always-makes-its-way-into-your-stories-that/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“Jealousy is a waste of energy...focus on what I have, not what I don't.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/jealousy-is-a-waste-of-energy-focus-on-what-i-have-not-what-i-don-t/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“The foster home they were leaving was no place to be. The mother, Mrs. Boone, slapped Paris around every time her real daughter did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/the-foster-home-they-were-leaving-was-no-place-to-be-the-mother-mrs/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“The fact is that you are more comfortable with myth than man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/the-fact-is-that-you-are-more-comfortable-with-myth-than-man/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“He'll never do it again,' she swears, but he will because she'll let him. Now me? I've got no use for imitation love that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/he-ll-never-do-it-again-she-swears-but-he-will-because-she-ll-let-him/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“Forget who I really am, who I really want to be.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/forget-who-i-really-am-who-i-really-want-to-be/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [For I am coconut / and the heart of me / is sweeter / than you know.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/for-i-am-coconut-and-the-heart-of-me-is-sweeter-than-you-know/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“So don't tell me that I can't fit in. My heart beats like a talking drum.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/so-don-t-tell-me-that-i-can-t-fit-in-my-heart-beats-like-a-talking/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [In one sense, the stories I read betrayed me. Too few gave me back my mirror image. Fewer still spoke to, or acknowledged, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/in-one-sense-the-stories-i-read-betrayed-me-too-few-gave-me-back-my/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“You laugh, rap my woody shell with wicked whispers shaped like knuckles, then toss me aside. Lucky for me, I don't bruise easily. Besides,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/you-laugh-rap-my-woody-shell-with-wicked-whispers-shaped-like/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“If a dream is in your heart, you never lose it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/if-a-dream-is-in-your-heart-you-never-lose-it/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [Something about your life always makes its way into your stories. Thats just the nature of the beast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/something-about-your-life-always-makes-its-way-into-your-stories/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) > [“At the edge of heartbreak, we both take a leap into the unknown...That's when we see it, a buoy callled friendship.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nikki-grimes/at-the-edge-of-heartbreak-we-both-take-a-leap-into-the-unknown-that-s/) [Nikki Grimes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nikki-grimes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/years-lost/nikki-grimes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Years Lost Quotes By Nikki Grimes", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. 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