That sadness that you do not speak of, that haunts you in the ache of midnight. Give it to me, I want to heal that.
NIKITA GILLLove 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.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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 have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
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People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.
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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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If you think the value of a woman is only in the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts, you do not understand how to read beneath her jagged lines, the sacred geometry that make up her glorious heart and her beautiful mind.
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There is a knowing in her, she hears them say, that makes her untamable. She has known since she was a child that she is observant in a way that makes them uncomfortable.
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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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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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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.
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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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Did you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is coming to devour you whole.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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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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I lost a God once.
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And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
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There is a spell for almost anything and if there’s not a spell, there is at least a poem.
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My Fairy Godmother is my heart sustaining me.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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The woman who tames fires and snakes and savours bones.
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The river takes what she wants, does what she desires, and washes over anything that stands in her way.
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There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
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How your voice tremors when you speak of loneliness.
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