Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
NIKITA GILLSurvival is ugly. Healing is messy. Self-love is complicated. It is your hardest days as much as your best days that help you grow. All of this is part of being human.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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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Become fluent in the language of letting go. Learn to give people up before they hurt you beyond repair.
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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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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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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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Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
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There are three versions of you. The one that smiles and laughs with others, the one that hides and cries alone, and the one that has the ability to achieve greatness.
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Perfection in imperfection. Someone whose flaws work well with yours.
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And I return home always. Because love’s call has always been stronger than the moon’s.
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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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Seek no homes in other people’s chests.
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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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Before we had mouths or language or hope, we still had love. I know it’s not much. But my god, it’s beautiful and on so many days it is enough.
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Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
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A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.
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