Tell your daughters how you love your body. Tell them how they must love theirs.
NIKITA GILLPerhaps magic is in the habit of choosing sharp-eyed girls who ask too many questions for their own good. Perhaps it chooses girls who are not unloved, but not fully loved either.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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What do you do when you see a love so pure, so completely unwavering other than bow to it?
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What if I told you your damage doesn’t define you and the way you survive is no one’s damned business?
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Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway.
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If we had no fears to master, how else would we grow?
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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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Survival 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.
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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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All children are born equally innocent, but all children are not born equally loved.
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I am trying to stop being the ashes that you left behind.
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All the darkness of the night is no match for a single candle that refuses to die out.
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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.
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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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Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
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She didn’t just wait for someone to come and rescue her from her discontent and strife, instead she took matters into her own hands and empowered her own future, her own life.
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How your voice tremors when you speak of loneliness.
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