The bird building her home on your windowsill has every nest destroyed before. The spider that is delicately weaving a masterpiece has had every single thread broken before. And despite it all, they try again.
NIKITA GILLThe river takes what she wants, does what she desires, and washes over anything that stands in her way.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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The ghosts of all the women you used to be are all so proud of who you have become, storm child made of wild and flame.
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I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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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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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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That growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly constantly moving and travelling without letting your pain tear you apart.
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I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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Knowledge after all is a dark art.
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I will not give up the flowers in my heart for stones just because the world is a hard place. The world is only hard because it needs more flower hearted people.
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Somedays I am more wolf than woman. And I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.
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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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Knowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
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All he knew was chaos and this mortal world was obsessed with order
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The greatest wish I have ever had is to create with words, what wizards cannot and what magic never has.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.
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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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I don’t know how to love people well yet. But I know I can love you the way you deserve, if you let me.
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All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.
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In human beings, a black hole is spending your energy loving someone who takes all of your love and gives back nothing in return.
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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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And she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
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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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Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.
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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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Before we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.
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