Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.

Nikita Gill

We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls, and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.

Nikita Gill

If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.

Nikita Gill

Nikita Gill

Please stop destroying what is left of your heart by constantly thinking about things that have broken you.

Nikita Gill

“𝐻𝑜𝑤 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑔𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑙?” ― Nikita Gill

Tell me darling, would you still love me If I told you about the monsters I need to sing to sleep every night? If you understood the way I need to tiptoe across my own mind so I can fall asleep before daylight? if you knew where the nightmares came from, if you saw my scarred soul, would being with me terrify you? If you knew the full extent of the damage they have done to me, would you stay, would you still want to?

Nikita Gill, Questions I Am Too Broken to Ask

"Aphrodite", I pleaded to the moon drenched night sky "Tell me"; if love is meant to heal, then why does it destroy those who choose it?" from somewhere beyond the clouds, i heard the Goddess laugh. And i knew.

Nikita Gill - Night Songs to Aphrodite

I 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 Gill

Every woman I have ever loved is still working out how to love herself. Has a closetful of ghosts and has been to a hundred funerals of the women she used to be. Wonders what wounds her mother carries that she will never know about. Hopes that the weight of the world doesn't eventually crush her, that she is strong enough to handle it all. Wishes a day will come when she can put it all down, give her aching shoulders a rest. Wants someone to truly see her and not make a feast of her kindness and dreams. Is forever hiding a secret hunger for what calls to her in the dark. Holds a universe inside her, but has been told to make herself smaller despite the paradox. Praise be that universes are not in the business of listening to anyone but themselves. Every woman I have loved has thought about it. The art of disappearing. To be here one day, and the next, like smoke, simply gone.

- Nikita Gill, Every Woman I Have Ever Loved

sky-flavored and sea-beloved,

Nikita Gill, from Great Goddesses: "Helen,"

I 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 Gill

I will not have you without the darkness that hides within you. I will not let you have me without the madness that makes me. If our demons cannot dance, neither can we.

Nikita Gill

I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.

Nikita Gill

“Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you, applauding you for living on despite your scars.” ― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers