Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
NIKITA GILLAnd 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.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.
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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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Some people are born with tornadoes in their lives, but constellations in their eyes. Other people are born with stars at their feet, but their souls are lost at sea.
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Did the girl choose magic, or does magic choose the girl?
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And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.
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They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.
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Stop looking for people who only want your beauty and turn away your chaos and darkness.
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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.
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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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