Nikita Gill Quotes

Take everything that
tries to destroy you
curse you,
and turn it
into something beautiful
by incantation

Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.

People give abandonment many names to make themselves feel better. Apollo named his necessary. He called it ‘the lesser of two evils’. Artemis was more brutal. She named hers ‘freedom’.

We write songs about it and poetry, and sweet stories, but people hurting each other will never become pretty. Every time a heart breaks and repairs, there are scars.

I 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.

It’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.

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.

Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.

"They will ask us in the future how it happened,
who allowed it, how could we just ignore it
when it stormed in so loudly,
like a thunderous beast,
could we not hear it?
This half beast half demon sitting
outside our doors, growling,
baring teeth, ready to rip out
the throats of whole people
erase the marginalized,
rip into the bones of the vulnerable,
why did we just sit there and watch
helplessly, asking no questions,
show them the evidence of
the thunderous applause
each act of cruelty is greeted with,
show them the raucous laughter
with which they celebrate the pain
each marginalized person feels
as their rights and liberties are taken.

Let them see for themselves
The bare bones of truth
until they realise, like us, horrified,
"The cruelty was the point.
My God, the cruelty was the point.

The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.

Honest Facts I Have Learned About People

We are all 65-70% water. We are all stardust. We all suffer, but we do not have to suffer alone.

You deserve someone who lets you glow in every way you need to.

The greatest wish I have ever had is to create with words, what wizards cannot and what magic never has.

So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.

And I return home always. Because love's call has always been stronger than the moon's.