So when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.
NIKITA GILLI wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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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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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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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I hope you find someone who knows how to love you when you are sad.
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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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I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.
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How do you go back to being strangers with someone who has seen your soul?
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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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As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.
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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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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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A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.
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All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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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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Everyone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.
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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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She’s a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.
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It has taken me some time to learn that although karma exists, you can let your hatred go, not by destroying your own magic but by letting it grow.
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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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She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.
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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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I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.
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It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
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All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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