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.
NIKITA GILLMaybe living your truth will not make you happy all the time, but it will make you happy every day.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she burns.
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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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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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You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
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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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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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Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
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Because girls who were building empires for themselves did not need kingdoms to shine.
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You are not his princess. You are your own queen.
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A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
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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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Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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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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And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
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Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
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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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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
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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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Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.
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The loneliest thing you can ever do is take very instance where you should grow and waste it by only thinking how could this happen to you?
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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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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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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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