All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
NIKITA GILLThe 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.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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A story is no small thing.
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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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Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.
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I lost a God once.
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You are half fairytale, half girl.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
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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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There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
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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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There is a spell for almost anything and if there’s not a spell, there is at least a poem.
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And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
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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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That growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly constantly moving and travelling without letting your pain tear you apart.
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You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
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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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Every love does not have to be made of desire. Some loves are kept for the people who stand by you through everything. Some soulmates are sisters not lovers. Some loves are for those who give you hope. And some for the strength, for wisdom, for dreams.
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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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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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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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We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
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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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The truth is, any hardship is bearable if you have someone to share it.
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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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Her 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.
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