It happens suddenly. One day, your parents don’t pick you up any more.
NIKITA GILLWomanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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The bird building her home on your windowsill has every nest destroyed before. The spider that is delicately weaving a masterpiece has had every single thread broken before. And despite it all, they try again.
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I used to only pick up a pen for myself but now I pick one up for you too. Is there such a thing as an unselfish love poem? I don’t know, but I’m trying.
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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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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she shines.
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Some loves come with an expiration date, like all things that are perishable this kind of loves rot.
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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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As leaves cover the forest floor in a carpet of vibrant rusts, orange and gold, autumn proves that sometimes death too can be a beautiful thing.
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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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Fill your life with women that empower you, that help you believe in your magic and aid them to believe in their own exceptional power and their incredible magic too. Women that believe in each other can survive anything. Women who believe in each other create armies that will win kingdoms and wars.
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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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A shadow is just a shadow until it starts to scare you.
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Knowledge after all is a dark art.
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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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You are half fairytale, half girl.
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