Your Heart is the Sea Quotes

“When you go through the moments where you are questioning yourself whether or not it was abuse, remember the way it made you feel. Push away the nostalgia that is trying to minimize it, trying to trick you like a bad magician at a children’s party that the rabbit did come from the hat, that love and abuse come from the same hat.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“Now I ask you.

What do you do in the dark when the monsters come for you?”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“We house both masterpiece and artist in this skin.
So when you are disintegrated, trying to piece together
what is left inside you, focus on this:

You are not broken.
You are simply dissembled for a while
as the artist inside rebuilds something infinite out of you.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“I am where love goes to die”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“Someone asked me to describe
my anxiety to them and all I could say was
"It is the habit of fashioning bullets
within my head. It is the unwanted practice
of treating my body like it is a pistol,
constantly waiting for someone
to pull my trigger.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“Still, at night,
the darkness comes for me.
Still at night I hunger.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“I have been wanted
as much as I have
been hunted.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea

“I crave loneliness so much
I do not want it at all.”
― Nikita Gill, Your Heart is the Sea