All my childhood heroes lived on the page. Now they live in me.
NIKITA GILLIn a cave where everything is fragranced with water, she asks for a daughter instead of praying for a son.
More Nikita Gill Quotes
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I wonder how I have carried so many regrets without even realising they were there.
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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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There is something moon-soaked and dawn-flavoured about her.
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Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted be, so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild, the wolf leading wolves.
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You smell of death. Everything about is an endless goodbye.
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I hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame.
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That growth is simply learning how to suffer, gracefully, elegantly constantly moving and travelling without letting your pain tear you apart.
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The old gods may be ash and bone now, but in us they rise anew.
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They kept trying to make me less angry, but I refuse to surrender my rage.
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Those freckles make you seem like a galaxy of stars, just waiting to be explored and loved.
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A clever woman is more lethal than a freshly crafted magic wand, and that is why she is fear.
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And what if there are things inside you that are much too difficult to love and you wished you were someone else instead?
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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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All because you were born into a family that could afford these things for you. This is called a privilege and you must never forget it.
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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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