The bad new is, what was shattered may never be possible to rebuild. The good new is, what you make in its place will be better than what was destroyed.
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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Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.
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All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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Womanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
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People aren’t born sad; we make them that way.
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Take this as your reminder. Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear darkness, some wear wounds.
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Some girls are full of heartache and poetry and those are the kind of girls who try to save wolves instead of running away from them.
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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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We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93 percent stardust, with souls made of flames, we are all just stars that have people names.
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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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It has taken me some time to learn that although karma exists, you can let your hatred go, not by destroying your own magic but by letting it grow.
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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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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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Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.
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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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You become the thing that hurts you until it can hurt you no more.
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It makes them feel a little free, to kiss something dangerous on the mouth.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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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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Everyone you love is slowly dying and if you choose not to love them right they will die without knowing.
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She’s a woman in love and is loved in return. That is a powerful thing.
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And power, power was so much more important than beauty ever could be.
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Did you really think she was a tender flower you could trample upon, and damage her very soul? She is wildfire. And she is coming to devour you whole.
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I had hoped one day to find someone who loves my monsters, the wolves that I feed, the demons I sing to sleep, the tiger that is my caged heart, the parts of me I do not talk about. I prayed and wished and yearned until I realized that I had already found her within me.
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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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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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