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.
NIKITA GILLWhen 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.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.
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The worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
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Everyone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.
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All he knew was chaos and this mortal world was obsessed with order
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There is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
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Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge.
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You are a dangerous collection of all my favorite things. An old soul, a heart of gold, and hands that make my body sing.
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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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I used to only pick up a pen for myself but now I pick one up for you too. Is there such a thing as an unselfish love poem? I don’t know, but I’m trying.
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Sometimes, you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling.
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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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Bathe with ice-cold water of the ocean just to feel something again.
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The greatest magic you have is the courage you go digging for, when your world falls apart, the light you still hold, when everything has grown dark.
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Maybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts.
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Listen to me girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with a battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, queens cover before no man.
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Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway.
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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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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she shines.
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All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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Why 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.
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The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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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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I know how to live with a blade and teach it not to make me bleed.
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But the universe never promised you this would be easy. After all, you are the hero here.
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