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 GILLIt makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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People talk about love like it is patient and kind. Love is also dark. It is ferocious and angry and destructive.
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No one told me love could be a God of both living and dying. That girls who love girls do not just drown, they also float.
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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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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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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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The worst story I know is my heart. The best story I know is my heart. Both these truths know how to exist together in ways I never thought I will learn. This is the quietest of victories.
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Teach your daughters their battle cries are needed far more than their silence and hear them deafen the world with their fearlessness.
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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The ghosts of all the women you used to be are all so proud of who you have become, storm child made of wild and flame.
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Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
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There is a difference between holy and pure. Holy is also the way the anger boils inside our throats.
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If you think the value of a woman is only in the curve of her hips and the shape of her breasts, you do not understand how to read beneath her jagged lines, the sacred geometry that make up her glorious heart and her beautiful mind.
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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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There is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
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To heal you must forgive your heart, your skin, your body, all of their mistakes.
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