Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
NIKITA GILLSome people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
NIKITA GILLEvery time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
NIKITA GILLIt makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
NIKITA GILLPeople are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
NIKITA GILLThe truth is, any hardship is bearable if you have someone to share it.
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 GILLAll my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
NIKITA GILLPeople talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
NIKITA GILLBecome fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
NIKITA GILLI am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
NIKITA GILLSo sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
NIKITA GILLThe greatest wish I have ever had is to create with words, what wizards cannot and what magic never has.
NIKITA GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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 GILLLove yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than yourself.
NIKITA GILLRemind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
NIKITA GILL