Nikita Gill Quotes

Poet and writer

Nikita Gill (born 20 June 1987) is a British-Indian poet, playwright, writer and illustrator based in south England. She has written and curated eight volumes of poetry. Gill uses social media to engage her audience and she has over 650,000 followers on Instagram, one of the most popular poets on the platform.

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To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.

She's a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.

I carried salt in my pockets. I pried nails out of the floorboards. I built a world where no one could keep up with me. I made a myth out of myself in my youth and spent the rest of my life trying to claw my way back.

And somehow,
you still
genuinley think
that magic does not exist,
that fairytales aren't real,

that the way people
find each other
at just the right time
at just the right moment
isn't the most powerful sorcery.

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.

You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.

EVOLUTION

Our whole universe is constantly evolving.
Entire stars disappear and new ones take their place.
From the bones of one planet, another is born.
Whole constellations disappear
in the blink of an eye leaving
just stardust in their wake.
What makes you believe
that your soul’s journey,
your soul’s evolution will
be any less painless?

These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.

This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into forever when you do not even understand what forever means.

Don't ever let them tell you that girls are made for glass boxes and princes and apple pies when girls are made for swords and shields and anything else they damn well want to be.

What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?

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

Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment. So the next time you look at someone’s life covetously, remember…you may not want to endure what they are enduring right now, at this moment, whilst they sit so quietly before you, looking like a calm ocean on a sunny day. Remember how vast the ocean’s boundaries are. Whilst somewhere the water is calm, in another place in the very same ocean, there is a colossal storm.

My Fairy Godmother is my heart sustaining me.

And I have faith that when you put the sins to bed you check under their beds for monsters, just to say hello to them after all these years.