The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
NIKITA GILLI don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
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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Grief makes unlikely warriors out of us all.
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I am so hungry for someone to love me.
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Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.
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You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
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A story is no small thing.
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Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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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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Those freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.
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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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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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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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Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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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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Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.
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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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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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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
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I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.
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And power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
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And you say you are broken, but broken mirrors like you create the most beautiful patterns of light.
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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 knowing in her, she hears them say, that makes her untamable. She has known since she was a child that she is observant in a way that makes them uncomfortable.
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