Angela Rafei

“She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone. And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, 'The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.”
― Nikita Gill, Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty

“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.”
― Nikita Gill

“Out there may be monsters, my dear.
But in you still lives the dragon
you should always believe in.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters