They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
NIKITA GILLThey kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
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 GILLWe have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
NIKITA GILLRemember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
NIKITA GILLStop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.
NIKITA GILLTo heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
NIKITA GILLNothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
NIKITA GILLDo not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole.
NIKITA GILLGirls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
NIKITA GILLSome loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
NIKITA GILLThose freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.
NIKITA GILLThe world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
NIKITA GILLI am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
NIKITA GILLEven with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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 GILLA wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
NIKITA GILL