Seek no homes in other people’s chests.
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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Remember, there are beginnings in endings, through destruction there comes life.
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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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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 loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.
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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.
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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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There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
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The truth is, any hardship is bearable if you have someone to share it.
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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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Sometimes all it takes to help someone survive anything brutal are those six words: ‘None of it was your fault.
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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 river takes what she wants, does what she desires, and washes over anything that stands in her way.
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