The worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
NIKITA GILLThe worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
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 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 GILLMaybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts.
NIKITA GILLIt’s how I learn there are a multitude of ways to say I love you. For so many you don’t have to use words at all.
NIKITA GILLI wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
NIKITA GILLEven with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
NIKITA GILLGirls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.
NIKITA GILLAll my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
NIKITA GILLNothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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 so hungry for someone to love me.
NIKITA GILLI don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
NIKITA GILLSo sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
NIKITA GILLWhat if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
NIKITA GILLLet it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.
NIKITA GILL