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.
NIKITA GILLThe absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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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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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 hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
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The rose is not everyone’s favorite flower, but that does not make it any less beautiful. There is a lesson for all of us in that.
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You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
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Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.
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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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You need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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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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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.
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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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Your body is not a first aid kit for broken people and damaged souls and hearts that are too tired to fix themselves.
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