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 GILLHer mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted be, so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild, the wolf leading wolves.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
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I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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If a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?
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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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I hope you never doubt again that even when you are in pain, that you are a miracle, that every part of you is incredible.
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I lost a God once.
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.
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You are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
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You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
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