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.
NIKITA GILLWomanhood is rich with unlearning. How to unlearn the way you hate your body.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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She takes her life and starts turning it into something beautiful without him. She learns how to love herself in the most intricate of ways. She goes out and spends time with her friends when she is lonely. She learns to love her alone.
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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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Softer memories once lived there. Where there is now burning. Where there is now blood.
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Seek no homes in other people’s chests.
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Ghosts of the person you used to be are so proud of who you are, they live on inside you applauding you for living on despite your scars.
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And she needs no prince or knight to save her, because her might is enough to tame dragons.
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Bathe with ice-cold water of the ocean just to feel something again.
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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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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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The absence of abuse does not automatically equal a healthy relationship. The absence of trauma does not automatically equal joy.
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You are not an open wound, they just want you to think you are.
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Perhaps he should have paid attention to the snakes coiled inside me waiting to strike.
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Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
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The old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
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Girls like her were born in a storm. They have lightning in their souls. Thunder in their hearts. And chaos in their bones.
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