Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
NIKITA GILLShe is unpredictable, and unpredictable is another word for ‘threat’ when a woman wears it well.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Somedays I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
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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. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.
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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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Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
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It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
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There is a difference between holy and pure. Holy is also the way the anger boils inside our throats.
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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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Learn it well. Wear your hair wild, embrace your anger and learn to wield it without fear as a sword against those who hurt you.
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Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
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Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.
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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
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We remember that family is not just those of blood. But also those we choose to love.
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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated. It is your hardest days as much as your best days that help you grow. All of this is part of being human.
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It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
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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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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
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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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What a perfect collision of star it was that came together at just the right moment at just the right time to build the incredible thing that is you.
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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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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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Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.
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She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.
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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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