Nikki XXI

The timing was terrible, she was out of my league, and she was set in her roots—but first thing in the morning, when her hair is a wreck, her baggy sweater is hanging off her shoulder, and she’s still laughing so hard her face turns red…well that was something worth chasing.

Nikki XX

She’s a creature of smoke, mirrors, echoes, and illusions. A spirit animal in its truest form.

Nikki XIX

Even if I told you—you wouldn’t believe it.

Nikki XVIII

For everyone I have met it can be said that there’s another. You are so impossibly unique that I will never find another you.

Nikki XVII

There was simply just too much of her in that town. I had to go.

Nikki XVI

Trust me Love, if I could, I would have made it eternal; but you were determined to leap from the cliff. There was no amount of wisdom or reason that could penetrate that wall of passion. I know. It’s the quality I love the most about you. Trust the process Love, trust the process.

Nikki XV

She’s locked in a free fall with a corrupted ideal of love—and even that makes her beautiful.

Nikki XIV

She’s an extravagant and beautiful witch surrounded by nonbelievers. She just smiles and sails past them, catching waves only she can see.

Nikki XIII

How could I possibly think clearly with you floating around in here?

Nikki XII

She surfs a bed of roses across frozen lakes.

Nikki XI

I’m always wondering what’s running through your mind while you’re twirling those cheap pens between your black nails.

Nikki X

She’s Hell on heels in an a-line.

Nikki IX

Despite my attempts to evict you,

I still find myself wafting through the smoke to find you in your chair.

Nikki VIII

Lift your head love,

those tears will only slow you down.

Nikki VII

Your beauty, grace, and confidence have carried you a vast distance love.

Your heart must carry you the rest of the way.

Nikki VI

She’s a professor in the school of vanity.

I could care less about vanity, but more than anything I wanted an A in her class, for no other reason than to make her happy.

Nikki V

The music was so loud,

I couldn’t have noticed someone else in there if I tried.

Nikki IV

From the moment she walked in,

I couldn’t get her out of my mind,

She’s been welcomed ever since.

Nikki III

There’s a purple velvet wingback chair in the back of my heart somewhere, that’s where you’ll find her.

She’s draped in ink, with a leg over the arm of the chair, a joint pinned between two fingers, filling the place with smoke, and smiling ear to ear.

Nikki II

If it was shiny or sharp,

she loved it.