Remind ourselves that grief may feel longer and more poignant than happiness but it still has an ending.
NIKITA GILLSome people survive and talk about it. Some people survive and go silent. Some people survive and create. Everyone deals with unimaginable pain in their own way, and everyone is entitled to that, without judgment.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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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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Love someone who is kinder to you than you are to yourself.
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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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Every time a man takes from a woman’s body without her permission, he is disrespecting the womb from which he was born, he is defiling the place that protected him when he was at his most defenseless.
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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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We do not abandon those who truly accept us for who we are, and if you could save all the people who accepted you completely, wouldn’t you go back to save them too?
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There is an art in the emptiness of all natural things.
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Some people will always taste like fire and leave the ones that love them tasting like ash.
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In a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
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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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Not all girls are made of sugar and spice and all things nice. Some are made of witchcraft and wolf and a little bit of vice.
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She wears strength and darkness equally well, the girl has always been half goddess, half hell.
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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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The greatest wish I have ever had is to create with words, what wizards cannot and what magic never has.
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Nothing will come of forcing yourself to compete your way out of trauma.
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