Perhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
NIKITA GILLPerhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
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 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 GILLPerhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
NIKITA GILLNo one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
NIKITA GILLTell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
NIKITA GILLShe wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.
NIKITA GILLYou are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
NIKITA GILLRemember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
NIKITA GILLI had hoped one day to find someone who loves my monsters, the wolves that I feed, the demons I sing to sleep, the tiger that is my caged heart, the parts of me I do not talk about. I prayed and wished and yearned until I realized that I had already found her within me.
NIKITA GILLI am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
NIKITA GILLSofter memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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 GILLWithout heartache there are no lessons to gain.
NIKITA GILLThe river takes what she wants, does what she desires, and washes over anything that stands in her way.
NIKITA GILLThere is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
NIKITA GILL