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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.

Nikita Gill

Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
NIKITA GILL

Blink Confusion Eyes Lying See Truth
Perhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
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Choice Eyes Habit Herself Love Magic Question
In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
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Born Cave Daughter Herself Prayer Time Water
Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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Crack Dangerous Grief Hold Myself
I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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Darkness Hands Night See Tender
The woman who tames fires and snakes and savours bones.
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Bone Eat Fire Power Tame Woman
You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
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Blood Growth Home Language Yourself
All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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Born Children Equality Innocent Love Yourself
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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Body Break Damage People Soul Tired Yourself
They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
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Angry Myself Rage Refuse Surrender
Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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Break Call Hard Time Heart
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.
NIKITA GILL

Courage Darkness Greatness Hold Light Magic Yourself
You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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Break Damage Stars Yourself
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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Born Constellation Human Lost Nature People Sea Soul Storm
Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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Beginning End Man Trust
All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
NIKITA GILL

Childhood Hero Myself Page

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