Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
NIKITA GILLSo when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Knowledge after all is a dark art.
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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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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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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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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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A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
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In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
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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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She didn’t just wait for someone to come and rescue her from her discontent and strife, instead she took matters into her own hands and empowered her own future, her own life.
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People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.
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So when they ask you what you weigh, you don’t need to look down at any scale. Instead, simply tell them the truth; tell them how you weigh whole universes and storms and scars and stories, too.
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A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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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 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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