Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted be, so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild, the wolf leading wolves.
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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A story is no small thing.
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Bathe with ice-cold water of the ocean just to feel something again.
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Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge.
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The truth is, any hardship is bearable if you have someone to share it.
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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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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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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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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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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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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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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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All he knew was chaos and this mortal world was obsessed with order
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