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 GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
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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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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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If 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?
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When I was a little girl, I had a friend and sometimes I wondered if he was born on the day the Titanic sank.
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I lost a God once.
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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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All he knew was chaos and this mortal world was obsessed with order
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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
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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 fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?
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The rose is not everyone’s favorite flower, but that does not make it any less beautiful. There is a lesson for all of us in that.
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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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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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