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“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

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
― Josephine Hart, Damage

“And you say you are broken, but broken mirrors like you create the most beautiful patterns of light.”
― Nikita Gill

“You are half fairytale, half girl.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“over the decades
her books became
such a part
of her

that
the ink
somehow escaped
her veins & bloomed
her favorite
words & images
onto her skin.

now
the world
would have
no doubt:

she
was the
pagebound
girl- page to skin”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.”
― Seanan McGuire, Indexing

“She wears strength and darkness equally well,
The girl has always been half goddess, half hell”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.”
― Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths and Monsters

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History

“Imagine that the world is made out of love. Now imagine that it isn’t. Imagine a story where everything goes wrong, where everyone has their back against the wall, where everyone is in pain and acting selfishly because if they don’t, they’ll die. Imagine a story, not of good against evil, but of need against need against need, where everyone is at cross-purposes and everyone is to blame.”
― Richard Siken

“a bookmad girl never dies.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“That idea...it was you.
You are the universe’s fairytale come true.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul