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.
NIKITA GILLBut I am both nightmare and sin.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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You are half fairytale, half girl.
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There is a knowing in her, she hears them say, that makes her untamable. She has known since she was a child that she is observant in a way that makes them uncomfortable.
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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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To my inner child, I promise I am trying my best to heal from everything that hurt you. I promise I am trying to become the person you need me to be so we can both be whole.
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When I held her, I held her gently so that she always knew she could fly away and I would never harm her or clip her wings.
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If two Gods can love each other with no objection from the divine or the universe, who are mortals to tell other mortals who they can and cannot love?
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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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Girlhood is confronting the parts of you that you think are too dark for anyone to love.
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A story is no small thing.
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These are girls made of dark lace and witchcraft and a little bit of vice.
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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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These are women made of terrible tempests and savage storms and the untamed unwanted.
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You deserve someone who lets you glow in every way you need to.
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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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