Forgiveness is easier to give to others than to yourself. But I am slowly learning.
NIKITA GILLI am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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You have never forgotten how home was more than just a language you grew inside your mouth before you said it in a way your tongue bled.
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There is no justice in the world. You have to make your own, because believe me, the cosmos that gifted you the chaos, also created you with care.
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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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A story is no small thing.
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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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You are not his princess. You are your own queen.
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When no one aids you, you build your own legs.
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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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Even with the antidepressants, the grief seeped through the dangerous cracks in the scaffolding holding me up.
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But I am both nightmare and sin.
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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 mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole, she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.
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You are permitted to be cruel sometimes, and you are allowed to fall apart, and feel every emotion they tell you not to feel.
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Our stories don’t begin and end because men we once trusted have left them.
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Heroes are never born fearless. They become heroes by facing their fears, by meeting them head on and saying, ‘You do not control me, or own me anymore.
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