Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated. It is your hardest days as much as your best days that help you grow. All of this is part of being human.
NIKITA GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated. It is your hardest days as much as your best days that help you grow. All of this is part of being human.
NIKITA GILLA wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
NIKITA GILLAll the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.
NIKITA GILLEvery love does not have to be made of desire. Some loves are kept for the people who stand by you through everything. Some soulmates are sisters not lovers. Some loves are for those who give you hope. And some for the strength, for wisdom, for dreams.
NIKITA GILLThe loneliest thing you can ever do is take very instance where you should grow and waste it by only thinking how could this happen to you?
NIKITA GILLDid you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is coming to devour you whole.
NIKITA GILLWhat do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
NIKITA GILLYou need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
NIKITA GILLThe bird building her home on your windowsill has every nest destroyed before. The spider that is delicately weaving a masterpiece has had every single thread broken before. And despite it all, they try again.
NIKITA GILLSometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
NIKITA GILLSo when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.
NIKITA GILLTo my inner child, I promise I am trying my best to heal from everything that hurt you. I promise I am trying to become the person you need me to be so we can both be whole.
NIKITA GILLYou have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
NIKITA GILLLearn it well. Wear your hair wild, embrace your anger and learn to wield it without fear as a sword against those who hurt you.
NIKITA GILLGrief makes unlikely warriors out of us all.
NIKITA GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
NIKITA GILL