Girls who survive trauma do wear a certain vulnerability around them, but this kind of vulnerability is from where their greatest strength stems.
NIKITA GILLYou are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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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Listen to me girl, you have castles inside your bones, coronets in your heart, if he threatens you with a battle, you raise him a whole war, the last time I checked, queens cover before no man.
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Only the brave and the broken are kind in this world.
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And often when she finds herself missing him, missing the good moments with him, she whispers to herself, ‘The absence of you has taught me how to love myself. So thank you, my darling, my dearest.
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The river takes what she wants, does what she desires, and washes over anything that stands in her way.
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Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
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You are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
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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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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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There are graveyards inside you made of people that made you ache, made of memories that you barely survived made of trauma and heartbreak. These graveyards need to become gardens where you plant flowers that blossom, for you to let go.
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But the universe never promised you this would be easy. After all, you are the hero here.
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Knowledge after all is a dark art.
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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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There is a lightening in our bones and wildfire in our spirits and we will find a way despite it all to survive and thrive.
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You have to choose between freedom and comfort. You choose freedom. Of course you choose freedom.
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