Sheryl Potts

“You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.”
― Nikita Gill

“We are the descendants
of the wild women you forgot
We are the stories you thought
would never be taught.

They should have checked the ashes
of the women they burned alive.
Because it takes a single wild ember
to bring a whole wildfire to life.”
― Nikita Gill

“My darling, he is just a boy. How can he possibly begin to appreciate the constellations you leave in your wake, or the stardust in your bones, when he has yet to realize just what it means to be in love with a girl like you?”
― Nikita Gill