Skip to content

Quote by Nick Lake

“It feels weird, thinking about you, before I knew you existed. I wonder what you were doing. I think I like picturing you standing in the wings. A hero, listening for his line, his cue to enter.” quote by Nick Lake — Download Open image

““It feels weird, thinking about you, before I knew you existed. I wonder what you were doing. I think I like picturing you standing in the wings. A hero, listening for his line, his cue to enter.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings)

More by Nick Lake

“I know for an absolute honest-to-goodness fact that life can kick you to pieces, break you into a thousand little shards, and that you…

Image

“Hey," you said. "Hey." SHAKESPEARE WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD”

Image

“Um, well, then. I guess, bye," you said. "Um, yeah, bye" OUR ROMANCE, STILL SCRIPTED BY SHAKESPEAR.”

Image

“You are descended from warriors. An endless parade of warriors. You have been alive for a billion years, an unbroken line of DNA. You…

Image

“In point of fact, he was not afraid to die, not anymore. He now understood with a faith that he had never before possessed that he would see those he had lost when he died, that everything would be made whole, that he would talk to Boukman, and his mother and father and sister, again. It was true that there…

“When guys in black Cadillacs drive you to some random building and lock you in what amounts to a cell, you know that shit…

Image

“When you keep hurting someone, you do one of three things. Either you fill them up with hate, and they destroy everything around them.…

Image

“I have always been good at reading, but I have never been good at reading between the lines.”

Image

“I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if…

Image

“I have learned that some people come into our lives, and then are gone. And that part of the thing, part of life, is to accept that fact, to accept that they're gone. But there's something else too: and that's realizing that a part of them will never be gone. We think of lives as stopping, suddenly. But they don't.…

“He held his head, and he cried for them, and he did not melt into the sea but sat, aching, in the glowing moonlight-for…

Image

“It's so hard, when you fall for someone—the temptation is to look back on the past and rewrite things so they seem more significant.…

Image

Explore all 20 Nick Lake quotes