It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
NIKITA GILLTo my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.’
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Before we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.
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I don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
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We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love.
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Some people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment.
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A story is no small thing.
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Your body is not a first aid kit for broken people and damaged souls and hearts that are too tired to fix themselves.
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Do not disregard or hate the maps on your skin and soul. These scars have never diminished your worth, they are the stories that make you whole.
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She’s a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.
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When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.
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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 summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
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And I return home always. Because love’s call has always been stronger than the moon’s.
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Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than yourself.
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Knowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
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Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.
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