Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
NIKITA GILLIf a woman does not fit the shape of what you think a woman should, if a woman is not obedient, does not see things the way you do, if a woman is too independent to need anything more than herself, does she automatically become a threat filled with such terror to you?
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
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Every love does not have to be made of desire. Some loves are kept for the people who stand by you through everything. Some soulmates are sisters not lovers. Some loves are for those who give you hope. And some for the strength, for wisdom, for dreams.
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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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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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The greatest magic you have is the courage you go digging for, when your world falls apart, the light you still hold, when everything has grown dark.
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Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
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Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
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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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All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
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Seek no homes in other people’s chests.
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The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.
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When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.
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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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The deepest love you can ever have is the love you have for yourself.
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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.
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