I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
NIKITA GILLWhy be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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The rose is not everyone’s favorite flower, but that does not make it any less beautiful. There is a lesson for all of us in that.
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Everyone has forgotten that Lucifer was beautiful too and God’s favorite till he fell.
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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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I had hoped one day to find someone who loves my monsters, the wolves that I feed, the demons I sing to sleep, the tiger that is my caged heart, the parts of me I do not talk about. I prayed and wished and yearned until I realized that I had already found her within me.
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Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
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Remind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
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When I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat.
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Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
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Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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You need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
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If he truly loves you, he will love you when you are an ocean breeze but also when you are a summer storm. You were not made to be loved in parts. You were meant to be loved as a whole.
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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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