And I return home always. Because love’s call has always been stronger than the moon’s.
NIKITA GILLThere is something moon-soaked and dawn-flavoured about her.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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The old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
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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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People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
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You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
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They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
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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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My Fairy Godmother is my heart sustaining me.
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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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You can strive to be perfect. Or you can strive to be art.
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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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She is unpredictable, and unpredictable is another word for ‘threat’ when a woman wears it well.
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she shines.
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We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
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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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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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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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As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.
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Remind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
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Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.
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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are.
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There is something moon-soaked and dawn-flavoured about her.
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Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.
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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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