Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
NIKITA GILLTake this as your reminder. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear darkness, some wear wounds.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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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.
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There is an old saying that when you meet your soulmate, your heart will not palpitate. Your body will not grow hot. Instead, you will feel like suddenly, you understand everything, and the tranquility of a thousand moons will grow between you. That was how she felt when she saw him.
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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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The worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
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Did the girl choose magic, or does magic choose the girl?
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The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.
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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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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
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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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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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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
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Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
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