Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
NIKITA GILLBecause girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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To 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.’
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There is a difference between holy and pure. Holy is also the way the anger boils inside our throats.
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Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.
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Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.
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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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We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love.
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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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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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If you think the value of a woman is only in the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts, you do not understand how to read beneath her jagged lines, the sacred geometry that make up her glorious heart and her beautiful mind.
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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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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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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?
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Nothing makes her want to be less adventurous or give up her eternal search for something to quench her wanderlust.
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A story is no small thing.
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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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I know how to live with a blade and teach it not to make me bleed.
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A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
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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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That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me, I want to heal that.
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So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
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And she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
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It’s how I learn there are a multitude of ways to say I love you. For so many you don’t have to use words at all.
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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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A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
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