Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.
NIKITA GILLTeach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.
NIKITA GILLIn human beings, a black hole is spending your energy loving someone who takes all of your love and gives back nothing in return.
NIKITA GILLWhen I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.
NIKITA GILLBecause girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.
NIKITA GILLAnd power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
NIKITA GILLPeople are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
NIKITA GILLTell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
NIKITA GILLThe woman who tames fires and snakes and savours bones.
NIKITA GILLThere is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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 GILLAs leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.
NIKITA GILLPerhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
NIKITA GILLIf he truly loves you, he will love you when you are an ocean breeze but also when you are a summer storm. You were not made to be loved in parts. You were meant to be loved as a whole.
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 GILLSeek no homes in other people’s chests.
NIKITA GILLEven the day must let go of the sun and allow the light to disappear, so the darkness can live for a while. The only way out of grief is through it.
NIKITA GILL