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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.’

Nikita Gill

Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.
NIKITA GILL

Fire Oneself People Taste
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 GILL

Day Finding Herself Hope Myself Prayer Realize Sing Sleep Talk
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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Born Day Friendship Myself Wonder
A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
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Healing Human Open Wound
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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Divine Each Other God Love Mortal Objection
She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she burns.
NIKITA GILL

Alone Brilliant Burn Herself
But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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Brutal Myself Violence Way Woman
How your voice tremors when you speak of loneliness.
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Alone Loneliness Speak Voice Yourself
I lost a God once.
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God Lost Myself
When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
NIKITA GILL

Build Help Independent Legs Yourself
Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
NIKITA GILL

Darkness Light Match Spark Woman
Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
NIKITA GILL

Born Defense Himself Man Place Time Woman
All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
NIKITA GILL

Afford Born Family Forget Privilege Yourself
Listen to me girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with a battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, queens cover before no man.
NIKITA GILL

Castle Coward Empowerment Heart Listening Man Queen War Yourself
Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
NIKITA GILL

Stem Strength Survive Trauma Vulnerable
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.
NIKITA GILL

Flower Garden Graveyard Heart Broken Let Go Need Plant Trauma Yourself

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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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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