“You were not made to be loved in parts, you were meant to be loved as a whole.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“You are living proof that fire can rise again / even from cold ashes.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“When they as you for your favorite poem, don't say it was him, don't say it was her. Say it is you. Always. It is you.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“think of yourself as a forest. When a wildfire comes to devastate you instead of just surviving it, you learned to grow in ashes.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“But you are not and never have been an apology, a mistake or a thing to be forgotten. Remember that in the way you wear your skin every morning.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“Some things are more beautiful because they don't belong to anyone or anything.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“You see, you may be damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“I go to bed alone every night and I do not grieve because silence is a sweeter sound than a heart that doesn't beat for you.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“You are a thing both beautiful and terrible, and you deserve someone who treats you like the moon and can love the dark side of your soul too.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“You are a storm in transition even as these words are being written.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“Home is not where you are born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”— Naguib Mahfouz, facebook.com
“They amputated your thighs off my hips. As far as I’m concerned they are all surgeons. All of them. They dismantled us each from the other. As far as I’m concerned they are all engineers. All of them. A pity. We were such a good and loving invention. An airplane made from a man and wife. Wings and e…”— Yehuda Amichai, amazon.com
“I’ve been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day but if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.”— Shane Koyczan, sharingpoetry.tumblr.com
“I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak And then suck my ex-girlfriend’s name out of my mouth just to make sure she never comes up in our conversations.”— Rudy Francisco, genius.com
“Here is the rest of my life stretched six-feet over my bedsheets and his laugh sounds like angels fucking on a cloud and he smells like sunlight after a long, night’s sleep and when we kiss IT IS THE SKY ON FIRE.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me. For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple.”— Mary Oliver, amazon.com