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.
NIKITA GILLYou are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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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You deserve someone who lets you glow in every way you need to.
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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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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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You are half fairytale, half girl.
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And they didn’t spend years painting your soul into masterpiece-like existence for you to waste it on someone who doesn’t appreciate you.
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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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As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.
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I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.
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It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
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My darling, he is just a boy. How can he possibly begin to appreciate the constellations you leave in your wake, or the stardust in your bones, when he has yet to realize just what it means to be in love with a girl like 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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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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Grandmothers are a gift not to be taken lightly. So many lose them, before they are old enough to know their magic. I am glad my bones were born with this knowledge.
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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