Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway.
NIKITA GILLTo 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.’
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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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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Everyone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.
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Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
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Fearless already runs through your blood. Now do it justice.
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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she burns.
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When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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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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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.
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She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone.
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Maybe magic ends with me and it will never cross your path, but I want you to remember that survival is an art. The world is falsehood so you rely on your smarts.
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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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The deepest love you can ever have is the love you have for yourself.
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