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.’
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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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she burns.
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours. Infuse modern love with the hues of older romance. An agency that offers something real in a world that was increasingly becoming plastic.
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Knowledge after all is a dark art, full to the brim with liberty, a trembling, malleable power.
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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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All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.
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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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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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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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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are.
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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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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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Some things are beautiful, but they are beautiful in the way of the sun. If you fly too close, they will melt your wings and send you plummeting into the sea.
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You need not fear the wolves you hide in your soul. They were made not to hurt you, but to protect you against this world.
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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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And she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
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The woman who tames fires and snakes and savours bones.
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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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A clever woman is more lethal than a freshly crafted magic wand, and that is why she is fear.
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People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
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A war is still a war even if it is inside your head, did you know this?
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Did you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is coming to devour you whole.
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You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
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