And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
NIKITA GILLAnd often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
NIKITA GILLThere is nothing more dangerous than a girl who is aware of the flames inside her, and all the damage she can do.
NIKITA GILLSo sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
NIKITA GILLI hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
NIKITA GILLThere is a spell for almost anything and if there’s not a spell, there is at least a poem.
NIKITA GILLSometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
NIKITA GILLGrief makes unlikely warriors out of us all.
NIKITA GILLDoes a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
NIKITA GILLHeroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
NIKITA GILLBurn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
NIKITA GILLThe absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
NIKITA GILLWhen I was a little girl, I had a friend and sometimes I wondered if he was born on the day the Titanic sank.
NIKITA GILLI am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.
NIKITA GILLYou are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
NIKITA GILLIt makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
NIKITA GILLAnd she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
NIKITA GILL