So sing a soft lullaby to the things you hate about yourself, and get to know them too.
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 have belonged better in your own arms than in anyone else’s. Remember you are the softest love you will ever have.
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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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There is nothing more dangerous than a girl who is aware of the flames inside her, and all the damage she can do.
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Even without him, you can bring down monsters. Believe me. You can still bring down monsters.
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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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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 wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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Nothing makes her want to be less adventurous or give up her eternal search for something to quench her wanderlust.
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There is something moon-soaked and dawn-flavoured about her.
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All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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She didn’t just wait for someone to come and rescue her from her discontent and strife, instead she took matters into her own hands and empowered her own future, her own life.
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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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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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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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Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
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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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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 he truly loves you, he will love you when you are an ocean breeze but also when you are a summer storm. You were not made to be loved in parts. You were meant to be loved as a whole.
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There is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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You are still the kindest thing that ever happened to me, even if that is not how our tale is told.
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And darling, I hope your remember to kiss the ghosts goodnight. They are only older versions of you that you have had to discard and forget.
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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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Perhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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