Nicole Blackman Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

Absence of pain makes anything possible

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.

Make up your mind as she makes up her face
She'll never really know her place
You'll lay on her frame and give her a new name
And bless her with all you can spare
Empty as wire, violent as fire
You'll carve her out of thin air

She's crashed home and cruised your world
But you can't get the Belfast out of the girl
This is how you throw her, you think you know her
Empty as wire, violent as fire

She hasn't left you yet but she will
By airplane ticket or kill-me pills
Sewn into her dress, she can't refuse
(careful what you love, what you abuse)
She knows violence, she knows please
Her hands for cuffing and she says nothing
And hooks her hands behind her knees

You fuck her flag and feel it unfurl
But you can't get the Belfast out of the girl.

If nobody quotes you, you haven't said a thing worth saying.

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