I had hoped one day to find someone who loves my monsters, the wolves that I feed, the demons I sing to sleep, the tiger that is my caged heart, the parts of me I do not talk about. I prayed and wished and yearned until I realized that I had already found her within me.
NIKITA GILLPeople talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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You are still the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.
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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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Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.
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Knowledge after all is a dark art.
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Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.
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A story is no small thing.
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Grief makes unlikely warriors out of us all.
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Even the day must let go of the sun and allow the light to disappear, so the darkness can live for a while. The only way out of grief is through it.
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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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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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What I have spent in mourning is the price I have paid for my healing.
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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.
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