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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.

Nikita Gill

Even the day must let go of the sun and allow the light to disappear, so the darkness can live for a while. The only way out of grief is through it.
NIKITA GILL

Day Grief Let Go Sun Yourself
When I set out to find my father, I was not being brave. I was acting out of fear or losing the only parent I ever had. They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat.
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Anxiety Believe Care Family Father Fear Finding Hero History Lose Repeat Simplicity
People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
NIKITA GILL

Angry Destruction Love Patience People Talk
We have all taken turns being Red Riding Hood and we have all been the wolf.
NIKITA GILL

Character Fantasy Myself Role Story
But I am both nightmare and sin.
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Nature Nightmare Sin
You are a dangerous collection of all my favorite things. An old soul, a heart of gold, and hands that make my body sing.
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Body Collection Dangerous Gold Hands Heart Myself Sing
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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Stem Strength Survive Trauma Vulnerable
A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
NIKITA GILL

Fear Scare Shadow Start
You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.
NIKITA GILL

Deep Hurt Yourself
The bird building her home on your windowsill has every nest destroyed before. The spider that is delicately weaving a masterpiece has had every single thread broken before. And despite it all, they try again.
NIKITA GILL

Bird Building Dedication Delicate Destroy Determination Hard Work Home Inspirational Motivational
Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
NIKITA GILL

Burn Destruction Memories Necessary
The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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Absence Equality Healthy Joy Relationship Trauma
And 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.
NIKITA GILL

Forget Ghost Hope Kiss Remember Yourself
Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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Blood Burn Live Memories Soft
But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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Brutal Myself Violence Way Woman
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.
NIKITA GILL

Beautiful Enough God Heart Hope Language

Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.

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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.

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