A wound left unhealed is bound to open again. That’s just what being human is.
NIKITA GILLEvery love does not have to be made of desire. Some loves are kept for the people who stand by you through everything. Some soulmates are sisters not lovers. Some loves are for those who give you hope. And some for the strength, for wisdom, for dreams.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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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Forgive her for how her agony reveals itself, child. This is how blood magic works. Unconditional never meant perfect anyway.
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You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.
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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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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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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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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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Even without him, you can bring down monsters. Believe me. You can still bring down monsters.
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But I was brutal and violent in a way they tell women not to be.
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Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than yourself.
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Why be a half-finished poem in some forgotten poet’s story, when one can be an odyssey in and of herself, part magic, part villain, part Goddess, part lover.
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Did the girl choose magic, or does magic choose the girl?
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People are going to betray you the way Judas betrayed Jesus, the way Brutus betrayed Caesar, and you will love them anyway.
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You have turned your heart into a museum of people you’ve loved to keep them alive inside you.
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She is alone, and oh how brilliantly she shines.
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Does a heart that is rotted cease to be called a heart?
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Tell them all what they tried to kill came back. Tell them all that I have come home.
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Burn every memory that does not help you grow. Destruction, too, can be necessary.
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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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If he truly loves you, he will love you when you are an ocean breeze but also when you are a summer storm. You were not made to be loved in parts. You were meant to be loved as a whole.
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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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I know how to handle noise better than I can handle silence.
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The rose is not everyone’s favorite flower, but that does not make it any less beautiful. There is a lesson for all of us in that.
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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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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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Every woman is both match and spark, a light for each other from the dark.
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