Knowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
NIKITA GILLKnowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
NIKITA GILLTell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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 GILLSometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
NIKITA GILLTo my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.’
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 GILLAnd what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
NIKITA GILLTell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
NIKITA GILLAnd they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.
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 GILLYou are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
NIKITA GILLThe deepest love you can ever have is the love you have for yourself.
NIKITA GILLThe old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
NIKITA GILLThere is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
NIKITA GILLThere is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
NIKITA GILLPeople talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
NIKITA GILL