Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
NIKITA GILLSometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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I am so hungry for someone to love me.
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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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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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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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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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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
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A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
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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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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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And power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
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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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I don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
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Sometimes, you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling.
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