Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
NIKITA GILLTell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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I am more powerful than I am damaged and I will rise from any abyss you drown me in.
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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.
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The deepest love you can ever have is the love you have for yourself.
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When I was a little girl, I had a friend and sometimes I wondered if he was born on the day the Titanic sank.
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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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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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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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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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I will not give up the flowers in my heart for stones just because the world is a hard place. The world is only hard because it needs more flower hearted people.
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It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.
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People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
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I am so afraid of disappointing the people I love, I often forget that I am someone I love too. And I need kindness just as much as I believe the people I love do.
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Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.
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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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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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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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There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.
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To my children, I will say, ‘Fill your skin with kindness and find solace in your solitude. It takes bravery to be kind. But to be brave you will need to know how to stand for something even if you are completely alone.’
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Anxious people are resorceful, they need to know how to keep the sea of panic at bay so they do not drown.
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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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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she shines.
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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