Copyright Copyright © 2017 by Nikita Gill All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights. Hachette Books Hachette Book Group 1290 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10104 HachetteBookGroup.com First ebook edition: November 2017 Hachette Books is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Hachette Books name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to www.hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591. The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher. ISBN 978-0-316-51983-0 E3-20171006-JV-PC For you and all the fires you will give birth to. Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Untitled I Miracle Multiverse The Meaning of a Day The Possibility in Impossibility Growth Dark Matter Venus The Sun and the Moon Dark Days Your Heart is not a Hospital A Conversation with My Mental Illness Unlearning Black Hole Ghost Story Lonely Endings Untitled II Witch Magic Dragon’s Breath Sorcery With Love From Midnight The Art of Unmissing Wolves Your Trauma When Love Dies Burning Why I am Magic The Well Spoken Heart Conjuring Wolf and Woman Anger Learned Helplessness An Ocean Called Healing Baptism Graveyards and Gardens Your Torment Has Meaning The Bones of Trauma Homes Forgiveness Reminders about Healing Toxic People Reminiscences Memories Love and the Moon Reinvention I Love You Statistics For Her Untitled III Sleeping Beauty Belle Ariel Snow White Cinderella Little Red Riding Hood Alice in Wonderland Heroes Girls of the Wild Untitled IV Who You Are The Epiphany Loving What is Broken The Becoming When the Monster Calls Survival Journey Boys will be Boys Three Sentences Hostage Silence Untitled V The Truth about Art Fire Wild Weathered Why She Stayed Her Skin You are Everything Desecration Mythology Untitled VI Helen Aphrodite Artemis Athena Persephone Hera Demeter Untitled VII Too Much Daughters Courage Son Self Care Let Go Secret Language Fossilised Love Hunted Primitive Precipice of Loss Reset Surviving Therapy Small Magic Temporary Pandora’s Box Temple Questions to Ask Yourself Value Pieces Time Belonging Haunted Nurture Blossom My Monsters Never Forget Fuel Three Versions of You Earth Planets and Stars Bedtime Stories Acknowledgements About the Author Newsletters Someone I loved once told me that there are fragments within us that are the same age as the universe, and because we are matter, we can never be destroyed. That a part of us will live forever and ever, and that in making us the universe was celebrating itself, we are its living, breathing joy.