Annie

“The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light

“Still, for all the therapy I had, none of it ever really fixed that feeling of torn-apartness inside of me. I learned how to express myself, that was all. And, for whatever reason, identifying the root cause of my problem - like fear of abandonment or something - didn't change a goddamn thing. I could see quite clearly why I acted a certain way, but that wouldn't make me any different. I sought out craziness. I was attracted to it. No therapy could take that away.”
― Nic Sheff, Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines

“He knew no more of love, he told himself, than he did of tears, but he enjoyed sitting there. And he enjoyed the conversation which seemed to him on the verge of taking an even more sprightly turn. In other words, he knew all there was to know about love, that it’s the delight of being in the presence of the loved one.”
― Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

“A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That's just what being human is.”
― Nikita Gill, Where Hope Comes From: Poems of Resilience, Healing, and Light