I hope you summon your courage and you invite your demons to tea, and you learn to listen to all their stories.
NIKITA GILLRemind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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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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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A clever woman is more lethal than a freshly crafted magic wand, and that is why she is fear.
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Anxious people are resorceful, they need to know how to keep the sea of panic at bay so they do not drown.
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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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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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And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
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Sometimes, you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling.
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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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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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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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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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I’d like to think our love does return to us reincarnated in different human forms. That people might be temporary, but love is permanent and it just changes form.
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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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But the universe never promised you this would be easy. After all, you are the hero here.
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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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Survival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated.
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These are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.
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You are damaged and broken and unhinged. But so are shooting stars and comets.
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The loneliest thing you can ever do is take very instance where you should grow and waste it by only thinking how could this happen to you?
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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.
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Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.
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She’s a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.
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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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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are.
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